Can the preferences of millions ever combine into a single fair decision? That question sits at the heart of social choice ...

From Ian Hacking's "The Taming of Chance", the detailed contents of Chapter 4, "Bureaucracy of Statistics", and Chapter 5, ...

Debian's 1,039 active Developers are ranking eight competing proposals on a single ballot right now, and the math of how Debian votes means the option they are most likely to argue about — an outright ...

Why perfect fairness cannot hold in asynchronous networks, and how different blockchains adopt different relaxations to fairness. Consensus guarantees today, focus on two properties: Consistency and ...

The Independent Voter Project (IVP) released a new poll this week that shows a seismic shift in the California governor’s race. But on Reddit, it also hit a nerve for many voters calling for ...

Debian has a new project leader. The 2026 election confirmed Sruthi Chandran as the Debian Project Leader, with her term beginning on April 21, 2026. She will succeed Andreas Tille, who won Debian’s ...

The Institute for Mathematics and Democracy (IMD) has released what may be the most comprehensive empirical study of ranked choice voting ever conducted. The 66-page report analyzes nearly 4,000 ...

We will need to wait to see the cast vote records from the primary (they were available last time, so presumably—and hopefully—they will be again this time), but it’s conceivable that Mamdani was not ...

The computational complexity of voting systems examines the algorithmic effort required to determine outcomes, resist strategic interventions and safeguard democratic processes. Central to this field ...

Condorcet는 RRF보다 열등했으며$$ (p \approx 0.004)$$, 개별 순위는 다소 개선된 것으로 보였습니다$$ (p \approx 0.2)$$. CombMNZ는 RRF를 약간 능가했으나$$ (p \approx 0.2)$$, 기본 시스템 간의 측정된 차이 중 유의미한 차이는 없었습니다.

It’s well known that the voting methods we use are highly defective, as they fail to meet fundamental criteria like positive responsiveness, the Pareto principle, and stability. Positive ...