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> Every voting system is suboptimal in some sense due to Arrow's impossibility theorem. Arrow's theorem only talks about single-winner elections. Most of the w
by sampo 8y ago
> Every voting system is suboptimal in some sense due to Arrow's impossibility theorem.
Arrow's theorem only talks about single-winner elections. Most of the world's countries use multi-winner electoral districts and some form of proportional voting for their Parliament elections, totally circumventing Arrow's theorem.
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