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The simplest form of election is where there are a number of candidates for office, and one is to be elected. There is a well-defined set of voters—the electorate —and each voter casts one vote. The votes are then counted. We shall refer to such an election as a simple election .
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Wallis, W.D. (2014). Simple Elections I. In: The Mathematics of Elections and Voting. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09810-4_2
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