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A mathematical look at democracy.

Are these methods fair?

Unfortunately the answer is no, not perfectly. Find out more here.

How does the voting system for the European Parliament elections work?

How should the seats in the European Parliament be allocated?

Whatever you think of Donald Trump, we bet you didn't think he was good at game theory.

Should we let go of the "one person, one vote" principle?

With the day of the referendum on the UK voting system drawing nearer, Tony Crilly uses a toy example to compare the first past the post, AV and Condorcet voting systems, and revisits a famous mathematical theorem which shows that there is nothing obvious about voting.

Much criticism has been levelled at the US voting system, and with this being election year, we're bound to hear more of it. In this article Steven J. Brams proposes an alternative voting system that could help make things more democratic.