Related Resources on Math and Voting

Learn more about Mathematics and Voting from Don Saari, Andrew Gelman, and others

• Statistician's new method will test election outcomes
• What's So Special about Voting? by Sara Robinson. SIAM News. March 13, 2004
• Voting, Social Choice, and Decision Theory
• Andrew Gelman's published papers
• The Mathematics of Voting
• Voting and Elections: Introduction
• The mathematics of voting - Democratic symmetry
• The perplexing mathematics of presidential elections
• The Math of Voting Methods
• Voting and Social Choice
• Voting and Markov Processes
• Sophisticated approval voting, ignorance priors, and plurality heuristics: A behavioral social choice analysis in a Thurstonian framework, Michel Regenwetter, et al.
• The Unexpected Empirical Consensus Among Consensus Methods, Michel Regenwetter, et al.
• "The Math Behind the Vote" by Theresa Bradley, Associated Press, February 27, 2008.
• "Spoil-Proofing Elections," by Julie J. Rehmeyer, Science News Online, March 15, 2008.

Learn about different voting systems:

• Voting system
• Different ways of designing voting, depending on your goals?
• Voting
• "Bad Math = Mad Politics," The Wall Street Journal, April 25, 2008 (the article's author, Carl Bialik, posted a column similar to the print article, "The Electoral College's Subtle Math" on his blog, The Numbers Guy).