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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…
physics.soc-ph2024
The Negative Participation Paradox in Three-Candidate Instant Runoff Elections
David McCune, Jennifer Wilson
In this paper, we provide theoretical and empirical estimates for the likelihood of a negative participation paradox under instant runoff voting in three-candidate elections. We de…