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. 2014 Jan 1;28(2):322–332. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12209

Table 9.

Flaws of voting systems (modified from Nurmi 2012; see Richelson 1981)

Voting system
Simple
Criteria Majority Approval Preference Borda Condorcet
Condorcet winner is chosen 0 0 0 0 1
Monotonicity 1 1 0 1 1
Pareto optimality 1 0 1 1 1
Consistentency 1 1 0 1 0
Independence 0 0 0 0 0
Invulnerability 1 1 0 1 0
Majority winner 1 0 1 0 1
a

Numbers: 1, system satisfies the criterion; 0, system violates criterion.

b

Independence of irrelevant alternatives.

c

Invulnerability to no-show paradox.