However, under Instant-Runoff Voting, Candidate B is eliminated in the first round, and Candidate C gains 125 more votes than Candidate A. The potential benefits of adopting an IRV algorithm over a Plurality algorithm must be weighed against the likelihood that the algorithms might produce different results. In an Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV) system with full preferential voting, voters are given a ballot on which they indicate a list of candidates in their preferred order. In the most notable cases, such as elections for president or governor, there can only be a single winner. There is still no choice with a majority, so we eliminate again. The 214 people who voted for Don have their votes transferred to their second choice, Key. The dispersion, or alternatively the concentration, of the underlying ballot structure can be expressed quantitatively. \end{array}\), \(\begin{array}{|l|l|l|} If not, then the plurality winner and the plurality second best go for a runoff whose winner is the candidate who receives a majority support against the other according to the preference profile under Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), also called Plurality with Elimination, is a modification of the plurality method that attempts to address the issue of insincere voting. Even though the only vote changes made favored Adams, the change ended up costing Adams the election. The Plurality winner in each election is straightforward. A majority would be 11 votes. What is Choice Voting? This continues until a choice has a majority (over 50%). The candidate need not win an outright majority to be elected. This frees voters from having to guess the behavior of other voters and might encourage candidates with similar natural constituencies to work with rather than against each other. \hline = 24. The concordance of election results based on the ballot Shannon entropy is shown in Figure 1. \hline 4^{\text {th }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{B} & & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} \\ \end{array}\). Also known as instant-runoff voting, RCV allows voters to rank candidates by preference. The selection of a winner may depend as much on the choice of algorithm as the will of the voters. Find the winner using IRV. \end{array}\). M: 15+9+5=29. Wanting to jump on the bandwagon, 10 of the voters who had originally voted in the order Brown, Adams, Carter change their vote to favor the presumed winner, changing those votes to Adams, Brown, Carter. \end{array}\). In another study, Kilgour et al., (2019) used numerical simulation to determine whether the phenomenon of ballot truncation had an impact on the probability that the winner of an election is also a Condorcet winner, which denotes a candidate that would win all head-to-head elections of competing candidates. Choice E has the fewest first-place votes, so we remove that choice, shifting everyones options to fill the gaps. This voting method is used in several political elections around the world, including election of members of the Australian House of Representatives, and was used for county positions in Pierce County, Washington until it was eliminated by voters in 2009. We find that when there is not a single winner with an absolute majority in the first round of voting, a decrease in Shannon entropy and/or an increase in HHI (represented by an increase in the bin numbers) results in a decrease in algorithmic concordance. Our analysis suggests that concordance between Plurality and IRV algorithms increases alongside the ballot concentration, with the probability of concordance depending on whether Shannon entropy or HHI is used to measure that concentration. In many aspects, there is absolutely no empirical or objective precedent to inform the proper implementation of RCV. Frequency of monotonicity failure under Instant Runoff Voting: estimates based on a spatial model of elections. When learning new processes, writing them out by hand as you read through them will help you simultaneously memorize and gain insight into the process. K wins the election. 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. In this election, Don has the smallest number of first place votes, so Don is eliminated in the first round. It refers to Ranked Choice Voting when there's more than one winner. \end{array}\). In IRV, voting is done with preference ballots, and a preference schedule is generated. \hline The Plurality algorithm is far from the only electoral system. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} \\ Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. \hline & 3 & 4 & 4 & 6 & 2 & 1 \\ The concordance of election results based on the ballot HHI is shown in Figure 2. 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. 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. These measures are complementary and help differentiate boundary case elections (i.e., cases where all voters support a single candidate or where ballots are uniformly cast for all candidates) from intermediate case elections where there is an even but nonuniform distribution of ballots. \hline & 44 & 14 & 20 & 70 & 22 & 80 & 39 \\ The existence of so many different single-winner algorithms highlight the fundamental challenge with electoral systems. This can make them unhappy, or might make them decide to not participate. \(\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|} We find that the probability that the algorithms produce concordant results in a three-candidate election approaches 100 percent as the ballot dispersion decreases. \hline 1^{\text {st }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{E} \\ Another particularly interesting outcome is our ability to estimate how likely a Plurality election winner would have been concordant with the IRV winner when the Plurality winningpercentage is the only available information. Available: www.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00723-2. We then shift everyones choices up to fill the gaps. Round 2: We make our second elimination. They simply get eliminated. If any candidate has a majority (more than 50%) of the first preference votes, that candidate is declared the winner of the election. This continues until a choice has a majority (over 50%). \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \text { D } & \text { B } & \text { D } & \text { B } & \text { B } \\ For example, the Shannon entropy and HHI can be calculated using only voters first choice preferences. In each election for each candidate, we add together the votes for ballots in which the candidate was the first choice. In this study, we evaluate the outcomes of a 3-candidate election. In addition to each simulated election having both a Plurality and IRV winner, it also has a distinct voter preference concentration, which we describe in terms of Shannon entropy and HHI. Second, it encourages voters to think strategically about their votes, since voting for a candidate without adequate support might have the unintended effect of helping a less desired candidate win. A majority would be 11 votes. \hline 3^{\text {rd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} \\ This system is sometimes referred to as first-past-the-post or winner-take-all. 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. The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is the formal name for a similar procedure with an extra step. Public Choice, 161. We also acknowledge previous National Science Foundation support under grant numbers 1246120, 1525057, and 1413739. In a Runo Election, a plurality vote is taken rst. Instead of voting only for a single candidate, voters in IRV elections can rank the candidates in order of preference. Despite the common objective, electoral algorithms may produce a different winner given the same underlying set of voters and voter preferences. Election Law Journal, 3(3), 501-512. Then the Shannon entropy, H(x), is given by: And the HerfindahlHirschman Index, HHI(x), is given by: Monte Carlo Simulation of Election Winner Concordance. D has now gained a majority, and is declared the winner under IRV. C, Dulled Popular elections may be conducted using a wide variety of algorithms, each of which aims to produce a winner reflective, in some way, of the general consensus of the voters. "We've had a plurality in general elections for quite some time. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} \\ So it may be complicated to, If you look over the list of pros above you can see why towns that use IRV tend to have better voter turnout than before they started the IRV. McCarthy gets 92 + 44 = 136; Bunney gets 119 + 14 = 133. Third, the Plurality algorithm may encourage infighting among candidates with otherwise common policy objectives and natural constituencies. Each system has its benefits. This study implies that ballot dispersion is a key driver of potential differences in the candidates each voting algorithm elects. 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. \hline 1^{\text {st }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{M} & \mathrm{B} \\ For example, consider the algorithm for Instant-Runoff Voting shown in Table 2, and the series of ballots shown in Table 3. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} \\ If there are no primaries, we may need to figure out how to vet candidates better, or pass morerequirements for candidates to qualify to run. The bins are ordered from least concentrated to most concentrated (i.e., the HHI bins start with bin 1 at the boundary case of HHI(x) = 1/6, and end with bin 100 at the boundary case of HHI(x) = 1,whereas the entropy bins start with bin 1 at the boundary case of H(x) = ln(6), and end with bin 100 at the boundary case of H(x) = 0). Round 2: We make our second elimination. The vetting is less clear - In the U.S., we have very few requirements for what a person must do to run for office and be on a ballot. 1. 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. The candidates are identified as A, B, and C. Each voter submits a ballot on which they designate their first, second, and third choice preferences. Going into the election, city council elections used a plurality voting system . We hypothesize that if the dispersion of voter preferences and ballots increases, then the concordance between Plurality voting and Instant-Runoff Voting should decrease. \hline In Figures 1 - 5, we present the results of one million simulated elections, illustrating the probability of winner concordance on the basis of ballot concentration and entropy. Now B has 9 first-choice votes, C has 4 votes, and D has 7 votes. - Voters can vote for the candidate they truly feel is best, - Instead of feeling compelled to vote for the lesser of two evils, as in plurality voting, voters can honestly vote for, (to narrow the field before the general election), (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). The instant runoff ballot in this instance will list all the candidates, but it will ask voters to rank the number of candidates needed for the number of open offices. \hline (I have not seen that proposed in the U.S.) This might be interpreted as, your choice, or forcing you to vote against your, I have not seen this discussed yet, but if there are, many choices, without clear front-runners, I am not sure whether the result reflects the voters desires as well as it would if there were only, say, five choices. This voting method is used in several political elections around the world, including election of members of the Australian House of Representatives, and was used for county positions in Pierce County, Washington until it was eliminated by voters in 2009. Notice that the first and fifth columns have the same preferences now, we can condense those down to one column. McCarthy (M) now has a majority, and is declared the winner. When learning new vocabulary and processes it often takes more than a careful reading of the text to gain understanding. This continues until a choice has a majority (over 50%). \hline \hline 5^{\text {th }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} \\ In a Runo Election, a plurality vote is taken rst. Rhoades, S. A. 1998-2021 Journal of Young Investigators. Winner =. Notice that the first and fifth columns have the same preferences now, we can condense those down to one column. There have been relatively few studies that use numerical simulations to test the behavior of election algorithms under different conditions. Consider again this election. Burnett, C. M. and Kogan, V. (2015). B, Glass 2, As is used in paragraph 2, which is the best antonym for honed? This doesnt seem right, and introduces our second fairness criterion: If voters change their votes to increase the preference for a candidate, it should not harm that candidates chances of winning. A version of IRV is used by the International Olympic Committee to select host nations. \(\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|} We dont want uninformedpeople coming to exercise their right and responsibility to have a bad experience, or toleave without voting properly. Concordance of election results increased as HHI decreased across bins 1 - 26 before leveling off at 100% after bin 26. Richie, R. (2004). People are less turned off by the campaign process andhappier with the election results. Concordance rose from a 75% likelihood in bins where ballots had the highest levels of HHI to a 100% likelihood of concordance in the boundary case. In IRV, voting is done with preference ballots, and a preference schedule is generated. Election officials told lawmakers holding a statewide runoff election would cost the state close to $3 million to administer. \end{array}\). In these elections, each ballot contains only a single choice. \(\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|} In the most common Plurality elections, outside observers only have access to partial information about the ballot dispersion. \hline 3^{\text {rd }} \text { choice } & & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & & & \mathrm{D} \\ In each election, we determine both the Plurality winner and the IRV winner using the algorithm (Table 2). \hline 4^{\text {th }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} \\ \hline These are the cases where one candidate has a majority of first-choice, or the likelihood that the two algorithms might have produced identical winners based only on first choice preferences votes, and the other being the case where all first-choice votes for the third candidate have the Plurality winner as their second choice. The ballots and the counting of the ballots will be more expensive - It either requires a computer system, or is labor intensive to count by hand, with risk of errors. \hline Reforms Ranked Choice Voting What is RCV? Voting algorithms do not always elect the same candidate. Here is an overview video that provides the definition of IRV, as well as an example of how to determine the winner of an election using IRV. In this algorithm, each voter voices a single preference, and the candidate with the most votes wins the election. It refers to Ranked Choice Voting when there is only one candidate being elected. The approach is broadly extensible to comparisons between other electoral algorithms. \end{array}\), G has the fewest first-choice votes, so is eliminated first. Electoral Studies, 42, 157-163. Transcribed image text: Question 1 Find the winner of this election under the plurality-with-elimination (instant runoff voting) method. This is a problem. The choice with the least first-place votes is then eliminated from the election, and any votes for that candidate are redistributed to the voters next choice. The results show that in a 3 candidate election, an increase in the concentration of votes causes an increase in the concordance of the election algorithms. 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. Let x denote a discrete random variable with possible values x1 xn , and P(x) denote the probability mass function of x. Concordance rose from a 57% likelihood in bins where ballots had the highest levels of Shannon entropy to a 100% likelihood of concordance in the boundary case. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{D} \\ However, we can calculate the HHI and Shannon entropy of these first choices and show how their dispersion relates to the probability of concordant election outcomes, had they been the first round in an IRV election. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{D} \\ - A certain percentage of people dont like change. Plurality voting is an electoral process whereby a candidate who gets the most votes in the election wins. Round 2: We make our second elimination. \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. Of these alternative algorithms, we choose to focus on the Instant-Runoff Voting algorithm (IRV). There is still no choice with a majority, so we eliminate again. A Plural Voting system, as opposed to a single winner electoral system, is one in which each voter casts one vote to choose one candidate amongst many, and the winner is decided on the basis of the highest number of votes garnered by a candidate. \hline & 5 & 4 & 4 & 6 & 1 \\ Australia requires that voters do rank every candidate, even if they really dont want some of the candidates. Concordance rose from a 56% likelihood in bins where ballots had the highest levels of HHI to a 100% likelihood of concordance in the boundary case. D has now gained a majority, and is declared the winner under IRV. Round 3: We make our third elimination. Remember to use flashcards for vocabulary, writing the answers out by hand before checking to see if you have them right. \hline 5^{\text {th }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{E} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} \\ Given the percentage of each ballot permutation cast, we can calculate the HHI and Shannon entropy: It should be noted that in order to reach certain levels of Shannon entropy and HHI, there must exist a candidate with more than half the votes, which would guarantee the algorithms are concordant. It is new - A certain percentage of people dont like change. Discourages negative campaigning - Candidates who use negative campaigning may lose the second choice vote of those whose first choicewas treated poorly. Currently, 10 states use runoff elections. Provides an outcome more reflective of the majority of voters than either primaries (get extreme candidates playing to their base) or run-off elections (far lower turnout for run-offelections, typically). We can immediately notice that in this election, IRV violates the Condorcet Criterion, since we determined earlier that Don was the Condorcet winner. The choice with the least first-place votes is then eliminated from the election, and any votes for that candidate are redistributed to the voters next choice. We are down to two possibilities with McCarthy at 136 and Bunney at 133. Market share inequality, the HHI, and other measures of the firm composition of a market. Available: www.doi.org/10.1089/1533129041492150. \hline We earlier showed that there is a certain threshold for both the HHI and the entropy after which the algorithms will be concordant. For the HHI, this point is located at 0.5, meaning that the Plurality and IRV algorithms with HHI above 0.5 are guaranteed to be concordant. \hline 3^{\text {rd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} \\ The second is the candidate value and incorporates only information related to voters first choice. \hline & 44 & 14 & 20 & 70 & 22 & 80 & 39 \\ Expert Answer. 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 & 3 & 4 & 4 & 6 & 2 & 1 \\ Round 1: We make our first elimination. The 44 voters who listed M as the second choice go to McCarthy. We use a Monte Carlo simulation to hold one million mock elections using both algorithms and then assess whether winner concordance occurred. \end{array}\). \hline 1^{\text {st }} \text { choice } & \text { B } & \text { D } & \text { B } & \text { D } & \text { D } \\ \(\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|} Wanting to jump on the bandwagon, 10 of the voters who had originally voted in the order Brown, Adams, Carter change their vote to favor the presumed winner, changing those votes to Adams, Brown, Carter. This criterion is violated by this election. With primaries, the idea is that there is so much publicity that voters in later primaries, and then in the general election, will have learned the candidates weaknesses and be better informed before voting. Still no majority, so we eliminate again. Australia requires that voters, dont want some of the candidates. \hline D has now gained a majority, and is declared the winner under IRV. \hline 2^{\text {nd }} \text { choice } & \mathrm{C} & & \mathrm{D} & \mathrm{C} & \mathrm{E} & \\ The 214 people who voted for Don have their votes transferred to their second choice, Key. The last video shows the example from above where the monotonicity criterion is violated. Choice E has the fewest first-place votes, so we remove that choice, shifting everyones options to fill the gaps. Ornstein, J. and Norman, R. (2013). It is so common that, to many voters, it is synonymous with the very concept of an election (Richie, 2004). 3. Still no majority, so we eliminate again. Plurality vs. Instant-Runoff Voting Algorithms. \hline 1^{\text {st }} \text { choice } & \text { B } & \text { D } \\ After clustering mock elections on the basis of their Shannon entropy and HHI, we examine how the concentration of votes relates to the concordance or discordance of election winners between the algorithms, i.e., the likelihood that the two algorithms might have produced identical winners. \hline Concordance of election results increased as HHI decreased across bins 1 - 40 before leveling off at 100% after bin 40. Pros and Cons of Instant Runoff (Ranked Choice) Voting, The LWVVT has a position in support of Instant Runoff Voting, but we here present a review of, - The voting continues until one candidate has the majority of votes, so the final winner has support of the, - Candidates who use negative campaigning may lose the second choice vote of those whose first choice. There is still no choice with a majority, so we eliminate again. All of the data simulated agreed with this fact. If no candidate has a majority of first preferences, the least popular candidate is eliminated and their votes. People are less turned off by the campaign process and, Green Mountain Citizen 2017 Winter Newsletter. But security and integrity of our elections will require having a paper trail so that we can do recounts, and know the results arevalid. \end{array}\). But security and integrity of our elections will require having a paper trail so that we can do recounts, and know the results are, In the U.S., we have very few requirements for what a person must do to run for office and be on a ballot. 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. \end{array}\). Round 3: We make our third elimination. 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