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Most elections involve electorates sufficiently large that ties are extremely unlikely. However, some situations, particularly committees, involve small numbers of voters. In this chapter we shall discuss some of these cases.
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Wallis, W.D. (2014). Weighted Voting. In: The Mathematics of Elections and Voting. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09810-4_8
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