Negative vote
Negative vote, also called Balanced Plurality Voting (BPV) is a modification of FPTP, in which voters can choose to either support a single candidate, or vote against a single candidate.
It was originally proposed by George A.W. Boehm in 1976 in an essay[1] sent to various social choice theorists, which referenced the plot of the 1931 musical Of Thee I Sing, in which a candidate wins the US presidency despite being a bumbling crook,[2][3]:187 proposing that voters be given the option to vote against a candidate like Wintergreen rather than for someone else.
It was then promoted and analyzed by Steven Brams in a series of papers[4][5]
References
- ↑ Boehm, George A. W. (1976), One Fervent Vote against Wintergreen (Unpublished mimeograph)
- ↑ "About". Negative Vote. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
- ↑ Poundstone, William (2009-02-17). Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-8090-4892-2.
- ↑ Brams, Steven (1976). "One Man, n Votes, Module in Applied Mathematics". Mathematical Association of America, Ithaca: Cornell University.
- ↑ Brams, Steven J. (1977), Henn, Rudolf; Moeschlin, Otto (eds.), "When is it Advantageous to Cast a Negative Vote?", Mathematical Economics and Game Theory, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 141, pp. 564–572, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45494-3_45, ISBN 978-3-540-08063-3, retrieved 2020-04-19