Voting system

Voting system table

This table shows the compliance of single-winner systems with some established voting system criteria. The methods on the left are ranked approximately in order of how commonly they are used.

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Related terminology

; voting strategy : Any way of voting, discussed in terms of its possible or intended affect on the outcome.

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; strategic or tactical voting : When a voter self-consciously marks a ballot in a manner different from their actual preferences, in the hope of optimizing the outcome. (While the adjectives 'strategic' and 'tactical' usually have nearly opposite meanings when used to describe other things, in this case, they commonly both have the meaning given here.)

Related Topics:
Tactical voting - Strategic - Tactical

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