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Virtually every devised election method satisfies this criterion. An example of a method which would fail it would be ''Random Candidate'', where some candidate is elected at random, regardless of the submitted votes. |
Virtually every devised election method satisfies this criterion. An example of a method which would fail it would be ''Random Candidate'', where some candidate is elected at random, regardless of the submitted votes. |
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Revision as of 08:37, 27 March 2005
The Pareto criterion is a basic criterion for evaluating voting systems. It can be defined in this way:
- If every voter ranks candidate A above candidate B, then B must not be elected.
This criterion is important in the context of Arrow's impossibility theorem.
Virtually every devised election method satisfies this criterion. An example of a method which would fail it would be Random Candidate, where some candidate is elected at random, regardless of the submitted votes.