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Voting theory, also called social choice theory, is the study of voting mechanisms. In other words, for a given list of candidates and voters, a voting method specifies a set of valid ways to fill out a ballot, and, given a valid ballot from each voter, produces an outcome.

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210A voting theory primer for rationalists
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685 general voting pathologies: lesser names of Moloch
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61Maximal Lottery-Lotteries
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42Multi-winner Voting: a question of Alignment
Jameson Quinn
5y
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40Deconstructing 321 Voting
abramdemski
3y
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31I'm Voting For Ranked Choice, But I Don't Like It
jefftk
3y
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141A Voting Puzzle, Some Political Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode
ChrisHallquist
10y
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61Thoughts on Voting Methods
abramdemski
3y
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58Imperfect Voting Systems
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11y
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39Quadratic voting for the 2018 Review
Ben Pace
3y
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32[not ongoing] Thoughts on Proportional voting methods
Jameson Quinn
3y
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21Why Ranked Choice Voting Isn't Great
jefftk
4y
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42Is voting theory important? An attempt to check my bias.
Jameson Quinn
4y
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78Voting Theory Introduction
Scott Garrabrant
8mo
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71Maximal Lotteries
Scott Garrabrant
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