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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…
A Comparison of Sequential Ranked-Choice Voting and Single Transferable Vote
David McCune, Erin Martin, Grant Latina +1
The methods of single transferable vote (STV) and sequential ranked-choice voting (RCV) are different methods for electing a set of winners in multiwinner elections. STV is a class…
An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Ballot Truncation on Ranked-Choice Electoral Outcomes
Mallory Dickerson, Erin Martin, David McCune
In ranked-choice elections voters cast preference ballots which provide a voter's ranking of the candidates. The method of ranked-choice voting (RCV) chooses a winner by using vote…
Paradoxical Oddities in Two Multiwinner Elections from Scotland
Adam Graham-Squire, David McCune
Ranked-choice voting anomalies such as monotonicity paradoxes have been extensively studied through creating hypothetical examples and generating elections under various models of…
Monotonicity Anomalies in Scottish Local Government Elections
David McCune, Adam Graham-Squire
Single Transferable Vote (STV) is a voting method used to elect multiple candidates in ranked-choice elections. One weakness of STV is that it fails multiple fairness criteria rela…