2 papers
stat.ME2024
Multiwinner Elections and the Spoiler Effect
David McCune, Jennifer Wilson
In the popular debate over the use of ranked-choice voting, it is often claimed that the method of single transferable vote (STV) is immune or mostly immune to the so-called ``spoi…
math.GM2023
Proportional Consistency of Apportionment Methods
Michael A. Jones, David McCune, Jennifer M. Wilson
We analyze a little-known property of apportionment methods that captures how allocations scale with the size of the house: specifically, if, for a fixed population distribution, t…