PPT-Candidates, Voting, & The Electorate

Who they are 537 Elected federal officials Occupation Lawyers 56 with JD 49 practiced Business Various backgrounds 7 with MBA 19 Career Politicians 2 MDs 2 Military and various others. C H A P T E R 6. Voters and Voter Behavior. Magruder’s. American Government. Chapter 6, Section 1. S E C T I O N 1. The Right to Vote. How have voting rights changed over time in the United States?. October 22, 2009. Maura . Bardos. Outline. Two Candidates. Majority Rule. Three Candidates or More. Plurality. Borda. Condorcet. Sequential . Pairwise. Instant Runoff . Arrow’s Theorem. Approval voting. Making Group . Decisions. Mechanism design: study solution concepts. 7-. 1. We vote in awarding scholarships, teacher of the year, person to hire.. Rank feasible social outcomes based on agents' individual ranking of those outcomes. Looking at a problem from the designers point of view. Voting. over alternatives. >. >. >. >. voting rule (mechanism) determines winner based on votes. Can vote over other things too. Where to go for dinner tonight, other joint plans, …. Plurality and Proportional representation systems . BY. : Destiny . Cook, . Jordan Burke. Plurality consists of four types . of voting:. Single. -member district plurality voting. . At. -large voting . Chapter 6 . Voters and Voter Behavior. Suffrage. means the right to vote.. . Franchise. is another term with the same meaning.. The . electorate. . is all of the people entitled to vote in a given election. . Off year and General Elections. Vocabulary. Suffrage 14. General Elections. Electorate 15. off-Year Elections. Direct primary 16. Coattail Effect. Recall 17. Caucus. Referendum 18. Presidential Preference Primary. Mark Wang. John Sturm. Sanjeev. . Kulkarni. Paul Cuff. Basic Background – What is the problem?. Condorcet = IIA. Survey Data. Pairwise Boundaries = No strategic voting. Outline. How to make group decisions when you must.. Chapter 17. Section 1. Election Campaigns. Serious candidates for president begin organizing over a year before . the election . to compete in spring . primaries.. After . the nominating convention, . Voting in America has changed dramatically since the birth of our nation. Initially, many groups were denied that right. Those groups included:. Voter Registration. Most states require registration at least . with an Emphasis on Approval Voting. 1. Presenter: Celeste Landry. . . Voting is a process for making a collective decision. 2. An Important Distinction. Single-Winner (SW). : . governor, ward member, member of Congress. Vocabulary. Suffrage- the right to vote. Franchise- the right to vote. Electorate- all the people entitled to vote in a given election. Disenfranchised- denied the right to vote. Poll tax- a special tax demanded by States as a condition of voting. In voting theory, the goal is to make the largest number of people happy while allowing everyone to vote honestly.. Voting Theory. http://www.mclib.org/voting_booth.gif. http://www.hamburg.mi.us/clerk/images/vote-graphic.png. Dr. Lisa Handley. Redistricting Criteria Priority Pyramid: Voting Rights Act of 1965. Section 2 prohibits any voting standard, practice or procedure, including a redistricting plan, that results in the denial or dilution of minority voting strength..