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Ranking Candidates Is More Accurate than Voting

Scientific American - Posted: October 6th, 2008, 7:00pm EDT

pEditors note: This story was originally posted in the March 2004 issue, and has been reposted to highlight the long history of Nobelists publishing in Scientific American./ppMost American and French citizens--indeed, those of democracies the world over--spend little time contemplating their voting systems. That preoccupation is usually left to political and electoral analysts. But in the past few years, a large segment of both these countriesrsquo; populations have found themselves utterly perplexed. People in France wondered how a politician well outside the political mainstream made it to the final two-candidate runoff in the presidential election of 2002. In the U.S., many voters asked why the most popular candidate lost the election of 2000./p a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=ranking-candidates-more-accurate[More]/a

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