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Our Electoral System is Fundamentally Flawed, But Theres a Simple and Fair Solution At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate. The reason was a spoiler--A minor candidate who takes enough votes away from the most popular candidate to tip the election to someone else. The spoiler effect is more than a glitch. It is a consequence of one of the most surprising intellectual discoveries of the twentieth century: the impossibility theorem of Nobel laureate economist Kenneth Arrow. The impossibility theorem asserts that voting is fundamentally unfair--a finding that has not been lost on todays political consultants. Armed with polls, focus groups, and smear campaigns, political strategists are exploiting the mathematical faults of the simple majority vote. In recent election cycles, this has led to such unlikely tactics as Republicans funding ballot drives for Green spoilers and Democrats paying for right-wing candidates radio ads. Gaming the Vote shows that there is a solution to the spoiler problem that will satisfy both right and left. A system called range voting, already widely used on the Internet, is the fairest voting method of all, according to computer studies. Despite these findings, range voting remains controversial, and Gaming the Vote assesses the obstacles confronting any attempt to change the American electoral system. The latest of several books by William Poundstone on the theme of how important scientific ideas have affected the real world, Gaming the Vote is a wry exposE of how the political system really works, and a call to action.

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Also by William Poundstone Big Secrets 1983 The Recursive Universe 1984 - photo 1
Also by William Poundstone

Big Secrets (1983)

The Recursive Universe (1984)

Bigger Secrets (1986)

Labyrinths of Reason (1988)

The Ultimate (1990)

Prisoners Dilemma (1992)

Biggest Secrets (1993)

Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos (1999)

How Would You Move Mount Fuji? (2003)

Fortunes Formula (2005)

GAMING THE VOTE Why Elections Arent Fair and What We Can Do About It - photo 2

GAMING
THE
VOTE

Why Elections Arent Fair
(and What We Can Do About It)

WILLIAM
POUNDSTONE

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Hill and Wang
A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
New York

Hill and Wang
A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright 2008 by William Poundstone
All rights reserved
Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.
Printed in the United States of America
First edition, 2008

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Poundstone, William.
Gaming the vote: why elections arent fair (and what we can do about it)/by William
Poundstone.1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8090-4893-9 (hardcover: alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8090-4893-0 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. ElectionsUnited States. 2. VotingUnited States. 3. Politics, PracticalUnited States. 4. Game theory. 5. United StatesPolitics and government. I. Title.
JK1976.P68 2008
324.973dc22

2007036770

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Frontispiece: Clifford Berrymans 1912 cartoon exposes the dark side of voting. Despite the smiling faces, presidential contenders Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft well knew that elections can he unfair when there are three or more candidates.
(U.S. Senate Collection, Center for Legislative Archives)

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Kurt Gdel Picture 4 Adolf Hitler Picture 5 Albert Einstein Picture 6 Oskar Morgenstern Picture 7Bambi Picture 8 the U.S. Constitution Picture 9 Joseph Goebbels Picture 10 God Kaiser Wilhelm II Picture 11 John von Neumann Picture 12 Kenneth Arrow Picture 13 Marxism Picture 14 Alfred Tarski Picture 15 intransitivity Picture 16 Harold Hotelling Picture 17 ice cream Picture 18 John Hicks Picture 19 Scissors, Paper, Stone Picture 20 Duncan Black Picture 21 the forty-seven-year-old wife of a machinist living in Dayton, Ohio Picture 22 the RAND Corporation Picture 23 Condoleezza Rice Picture 24 Olaf Helmer Picture 25 Harry Truman Picture 26 Joseph Stalin Picture 27 Abram Bergson

Michelle Kwan Picture 28 the Great Flip-Flop Picture 29 Republicans Picture 30 Democrats Picture 31 Communists Picture 32 Sidney Morgenbesser Picture 33 irrelevant alternatives Picture 34 Michelangelo Picture 35 Joe McCarthy Picture 36 Winston Churchill Picture 37 Woodrow Wilson Picture 38 Boss Tweed Picture 39 Amartya Sen

Spoilers Picture 40 the electoral college Picture 41 James Polk Picture 42 Henry Clay Picture 43 James Birney cholera Picture 44 Zachary Taylor Picture 45 Martin Van Buren Picture 46 Lewis Cass Picture 47 Abraham Lincoln Picture 48 Stephen Douglas Picture 49 John Breckinridge Picture 50

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