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The Count in the Village Hall

How different ways of counting votes can choose different winners

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Wren: 34 min · Hollis: 39 min

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Your chapters

  1. A gap on the green

    minutes, ballot, ballot box, ranked ballot, preference

  2. The most first marks

    plurality, majority, first past the post, vote splitting, spoiler

  3. One out at a time

    runoff, elimination, transfer, ranked-choice voting, instant runoff, preferential voting

  4. Two by two

    head-to-head count, Condorcet winner, Condorcet cycle, Arrow's theorem

  5. Goodnight, Minutes

    the wind-down