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A Problem in Voting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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The following is a problem in voting:

A number of n individuals are separately arranged in order of preference by a number of k electors ; it is desired to ascertain the order of preference in the opinion of the electors as a whole.

Without discussing what is the best solution of this problem, there are three plausible methods, and it will appear as the result of a curious theorem that two of them lead to identical results.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1909