Violating the Condorcet Criterion

Introduction

A voting method is a mechanism for determining the winner in an election, with a series of steps explicitly listed. These methods generally have some means of scoring candidates. Each voting method is used on a preference table, which is a chart that indicates people’s relative preferences between two or more options.

Voting methods are often found as a topic in the curriculum of a recreational math or math modeling course at the high school or collegiate level. In particular, this article will use four voting methods — plurality…