Nate Atkinson and Ezra Friedman have posted this paper on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Should states retain plurality rule or adopt a different voting method? We study the class of sequential plurality ...

Methods for tallying votes to determine a primary election's outcome include plurality counts and majority counts. Forty-one states require that a candidate receive a plurality of all votes cast in ...

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