Four Voting Methods: an Interactive Gizmo from Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles

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Four Voting Methods

The applet below helps practice and gain insight into four voting methods: Plurality, Borda, Plurality with Elimination, Pairwise Comparison. The instructions for using the applet are available on a separate page and can also be read under the first tab directly in the applet.

This applet requires Sun's Java VM 2 which your browser may perceive as a popup. Which it is not. If you want to see the applet work, visit Sun's website at http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp, download and install Java VM and enjoy the applet.

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(This applet was created to accompany Excursions in Modern Mathematics, Seventh Edition, by Peter Tannenbaum © Pearson Education. Reproduced with permission. An earlier version of the applet is still available online at http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/SocialScience/SocialChoice.shtml.)

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