1. The winner received just under 23 percent of . (Figures 1 - 4). K wins the election. Please note:at 2:50 in the video it says 9+2+8=18, should 9+2+8=19, so D=19. - A certain percentage of people dont like change. We are down to two possibilities with McCarthy at 136 and Bunney at 133. \end{array}\). If there are no primaries, we may need to figure out how to vet candidates better, or pass more, If enough voters did not give any votes to, their lower choices, then you could fail to get a candidate who ends up with a majority, after all. The relationship between ballot concentration and winner concordance can be observed even in the absence of full voter preference information. Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), also called Plurality with Elimination, is a modification of the plurality method that attempts to address the issue of insincere voting. Here is an overview video that provides the definition of IRV, as well as an example of how to determine the winner of an election using IRV. In a Plurality voting system, each voter is given a ballot from which they must choose one candidate. Now B has 9 first-choice votes, C has 4 votes, and D has 7 votes. \hline 4^{\text {th }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} \\ Instant-runoff voting ( IRV) is a voting method used in single-seat elections with more than two candidates. Let x denote a discrete random variable with possible values x1 xn , and P(x) denote the probability mass function of x. In IRV, voting is done with preference ballots, and a preference schedule is generated. \hline & 3 & 4 & 4 & 6 & 2 & 1 \\ \hline 1^{\text {st }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{E} \\ . Available: www.doi.org/10.1089/1533129041492150. \end{array}\), \(\begin{array}{|l|l|l|} If no candidate has more than 50% of the vote, then an "instant runoff" occurrs. Joyner, N. (2019), Utilization of machine learning to simulate the implementation of instant runoff voting, SIAM Undergraduate Research Online, 12, 282-304. \hline 1^{\text {st }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{E} \\ A version of IRV is used by the International Olympic Committee to select host nations. The most typical scenarios of the spoiler effect involve plurality voting, our choose-one method. Donovan, T., Tolbert, C., and Gracey, K. (2016). Choice E has the fewest first-place votes, so we remove that choice, shifting everyones options to fill the gaps. This continues until a choice has a majority (over 50%). However, if voters have very small differences in their preferences between candidates, we would expect Instant-Runoff Voting to elect the candidate who is preferred on balance. The Plurality algorithm is far from the only electoral system. RCV in favor of plurality winners or runoff elections. Third, the Plurality algorithm may encourage infighting among candidates with otherwise common policy objectives and natural constituencies. The plurality with elimination method requires voters to rank their preferences. One of the challenges with this approach is that since the votes by ballot are generated randomly, they tend to be very evenly distributed (randomness, especially uniform randomness, tends to carry very high Shannon entropy and low HHI), and thus most data tend to fall into the lower bins. In this election, Carter would be eliminated in the first round, and Adams would be the winner with 66 votes to 34 for Brown. Single transferable vote is the method of Instant runoff election used for multi-winner races such as the at-large city council seats. Now B has 9 first-choice votes, C has 4 votes, and D has 7 votes. \end{array}\). G has the fewest first-choice votes, and so is eliminated first. The Plurality winner in each election is straightforward. \hline & 5 & 4 & 4 & 6 & 1 \\ \end{array}\). If this was a plurality election, note that B would be the winner with 9 first-choice votes, compared to 6 for D, 4 for C, and 1 for E. There are total of 3+4+4+6+2+1 = 20 votes. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \text { D } & \text { B } & \text { D } & \text { B } & \text { B } \\ \hline \hline 3^{\text {rd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} \\ \hline 3^{\text {rd }} \text { choice } & & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & & & \mathrm{D} \\ It is used in many elections, including the city elections in Berkeley, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the state elections in Maine, and the presidential caucuses in Nevada. Consider the preference schedule below, in which a companys advertising team is voting on five different advertising slogans, called A, B, C, D, and E here for simplicity. In one such study, Joyner (2019) used machine learning tools to estimate the hypothetical outcome of the 2004 presidential election had it been conducted using the IRV algorithm. We then shift everyones choices up to fill the gaps. C has the fewest votes. . M: 15+9+5=29. We then shift everyones choices up to fill the gaps. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, he or she is declared the winner. As the law now stands, the kinds of instant runoff voting described in the following post are no longer possible in North Carolina. If enough voters did not give any votes to. \(\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline HGP Grade 11 module 1 - Lecture notes 1-10; 437400192 social science vs applied social science; . Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) In IRV, voting is done with preference ballots, and a preference schedule is generated. In this election, Carter would be eliminated in the first round, and Adams would be the winner with 66 votes to 34 for Brown. \hline 1^{\text {st }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{D} \\ We calculate two values for each of these statistics. Campaign civility under preferential and plurality voting. Saves money compared to running primary elections (to narrow the field before the general election) or run-off elections (to chose a final winner after a general election, if no candidate has a majority, and if the law requires a majority for that office). Since the number of elections that could be simulated was limited to one million hypothetical elections, there are opportunities to increase the sample size. A version of IRV is used by the International Olympic Committee to select host nations. Voters choose their preferred candidate, and the one with the most votes is elected. Concordance rose from a 75% likelihood in bins where ballots had the highest levels of HHI to a 100% likelihood of concordance in the boundary case. Ballot (and voter) exhaustion under instant runoff voting: An examination of four ranked-choice elections, Electoral Studies, 37, 41-49. Each system has its benefits. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{D} \\ W: 37+9=46. \hline 1^{\text {st }} \text { choice } & \text { B } & \text { D } \\ \hline Electoral Studies, 42, 157-163. This paper addresses only the likelihood of winner concordance when comparing the Plurality and IRV algorithms. (The general election, to be held in November, will use a standard ballot.) Round 2: We make our second elimination. By the sixth and final round, the winner beat Santos by about 200 votes and had 51 percent to Santos' 49 percent of the remaining vote. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{M} \\ All rights reserved. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \text { D } & \text { B } \\ Writing this paper would not have been possible without help from Middlesex Community College Professors Scott Higinbotham and Aisha Arroyo who provided me with critical guidance in the direction and methodologies of this paper. Both of these measurements share the same cutoff for guaranteed concordance as their corresponding ballot concentration counterparts. Round 1: We make our first elimination. D has now gained a majority, and is declared the winner under IRV. These are the cases where one candidate has a majority of first-choice, or the likelihood that the two algorithms might have produced identical winners based only on first choice preferences votes, and the other being the case where all first-choice votes for the third candidate have the Plurality winner as their second choice. We also acknowledge previous National Science Foundation support under grant numbers 1246120, 1525057, and 1413739. We use a Monte Carlo simulation to hold one million mock elections using both algorithms and then assess whether winner concordance occurred. A plurality voting system is an electoral system in which the winner of an election is the candidate that received the highest number of votes. The candidate that receives the most votes wins, regardless of whether or not they obtain a majority (i.e., 50% or more of the vote). \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{M} \\ The calculations are sufficiently straightforward and can be performed in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet as described below. Now suppose that the results were announced, but election officials accidentally destroyed the ballots before they could be certified, and the votes had to be recast. Still no majority, so we eliminate again. Choice E has the fewest first-place votes, so we remove that choice, shifting everyones options to fill the gaps. This is similar to the idea of holding runoff elections, but since every voters order of preference is recorded on the ballot, the runoff can be computed without requiring a second costly election. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{C} & & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{E} & \\ In order to utilize a finer bin size without having bins that receive no data, the sample size would need to be drastically increased, likely requiring a different methodology for obtaining and storing data and/or more robust modeling. 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