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Most of voting theory can be thought of as deciding whether and how voters should be allowed to express their [[Ballot|preference]] on more than one candidate, who should win when there isn't a clearly best candidate, and deciding whether elements of [[proportional representation]] are desirable.
Also see the [[voting theory glossary]]. [[Vote counting]] explains how the ballots submitted by the voters can be physically turned into the information needed to compute the result of a voting method.
[[File:Voting system Euler diagram.svg|thumb|Several of the popular voting methods, categorized by their important properties]]
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