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A key property of voting systems is that, because they are algorithms, they must be formally defined. Consensus, for example, which is sometimes put forward as a voting system, is more properly a broad way of working with others, analogous to democracy or anarchy.
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.
[[File:Voting system Euler diagram.svg|thumb|Several of the popular voting methods, categorized by their important properties]]
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