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A formally defined pass/fail criterion by which a [[voting system]] may be assessed.
 
Though a voting method may pass or fail a given criterion, that does not mean the voting method can't almost always pass or fail the criterion in practice, or that when it passes or fails the criterion, that this will be particularly bad. Advocates of various voting methods often make the argument that though their method may fail some criteria, that this should not be considered a major drawback of their methods; for example, advocates of [[Approval voting]] and [[IRV]] often argue that though those methods fail the [[Condorcet criterion]], they almost always meet it in practice, and that when they fail it, it is for good reason, or at least not particularly bad.
 
Many criteria relate to sets of candidates; see the [[set theory]] article for more information.
 
Examples for such criteria are: