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It was then promoted and analyzed by [[Steven Brams]] in a series of papers<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brams|first=Steven|date=1976|title=One Man, n Votes, Module in Applied Mathematics|url=|journal=Mathematical Association of America, Ithaca: Cornell University|volume=|pages=|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Brams|first=Steven J.|title=When is it Advantageous to Cast a Negative Vote?|date=1977|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-45494-3_45|work=Mathematical Economics and Game Theory|volume=141|pages=564–572|editor-last=Henn|editor-first=Rudolf|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-45494-3_45|isbn=978-3-540-08063-3|access-date=2020-04-19|editor2-last=Moeschlin|editor2-first=Otto}}</ref>
== Notes ==
The common argument Negative vote advocates make is that in a two-faction election, partisans of both sides will "cancel each other out" by putting positive votes on their own side's candidates and negative votes on the other side's candidates, allowing candidates "in the middle" to win with some votes from centrist voters and no opposition from the partisans, who will be more focused on stopping the other side.
[[Cardinal method]] advocates tend to argue that negative vote still preserves most of the worst features of FPTP, in that it doesn't allow a voter to support multiple candidates, and can still incentivize [[Favorite Betrayal]].
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