Abstract
It is common knowledge that voting procedures can affect the results of governmental elections. Few realise that voting procedures can affect the outcome of parochial small-scale committee decisions. Various voting procedures are available and the choice of voting procedure may be influenced by the outcome desired.
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Clyde Coombs. 1912–88. American psychologist.
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Jean-Charles de Borda. 1733–99. French mathematician.
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Alternatively each voter can give the highest number to their favoured candidate and successively decrease the number by one, with the candidate with the highest score winning.
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Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Cariat, 1743–94, Marquis de Condorcet.
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Kenneth J Arrow. b 1921 Nobel prize winning Stanford economist.