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econ.GN2026
Can ranked-choice voting elect the least popular candidate?
David McCune, Jennifer Wilson
We analyze how frequently instant runoff voting (IRV) selects the weakest (or least popular) candidate in three-candidate elections. We consider four definitions of ``weakest candi…
econ.GN2024
Single Transferable Vote and Paradoxes of Negative and Positive Involvement
David McCune
We analyze a type of voting paradox which we term an involvement paradox, in which a candidate who loses an election could be made into a winner if more of the candidate's non-supp…