Electoral system: Difference between revisions

== Overlap with other fields ==

Voting theory intersects with many other fields. For example, computer science is often used to figure out how to compute and demonstrate the results of a voting method, mathematics is useful in evaluating several things such as how many votes various candidates have, etc. Logic features prominently when proving various properties and criteria that voting methods pass, with statistics helping to model how these methods perform in practice. There are articles on this wiki covering the general concept of [[:Category:Binary relations theory|binary relations theory]], which encompasses relations between pairs of objects, or in this context, candidates.