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Examples of vote in the following topics:

• Public Choice: Median Voters and Inefficient Voting Outcomes

  • Public choice may not lead to an economically efficient outcomes due to who votes, why they vote, and in what system they vote.
  • Common voting systems include majority rule, proportional representation, or plurality voting.
  • The study of voting systems is called voting theory.
  • Voting theory is a subfield of economics.
  • An example of a voting paradox can be seen in a simple voting scenario.

• Voting Right

  • Common stock can also be referred to as a "voting share. " Common stock usually carries with it the right to vote on business entity matters, such as electing the board of directors, establishing corporate objectives and policy, and stock splits.
  • However, common stock can be broken into voting and non-voting classes.
  • The matters that a stockholder gets to vote on vary from company to company.
  • In many cases, the shareholder will be able to vote for members of a company board of directors and, in general, each share gets a vote as opposed to each shareholder.
  • Shareholders with the right to vote will have numerous options in how to make their voice heard with regards to voting matters should they choose to.

• Women vs. Men

  • In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote and, today, women vote at similar rates to men.
  • There are a variety of theories that help to explain who votes.
  • Other approaches examine the question of the rationality of voting: does voting serve the self-interest of any given individual, and what are the interests or issues that might change someone's voting patterns?
  • In spite of this long-term institutional barrier to voting, women today vote at similar rates to men.
  • Women also do not generally vote as a bloc, and instead tend to be as diverse in their voting patterns as men.

• Winning an Election: Majority, Plurality, and Proportional Representation

  • Common voting systems are majority rule, proportional representation, or plurality voting with a number of criteria for the winner.
  • A voting system contains rules for valid voting, and how votes are counted and aggregated to yield a final result.
  • Common voting systems are majority rule, proportional representation, or plurality voting with a number of variations and methods such as first-past-the-post or preferential voting.
  • The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly that is based on single-member constituencies .
  • Compare and contrast the voting systems of majority rule, proportional representation and plurality voting

• Attempts to Improve Voter Turnout

  • Compulsory voting is a system by which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day.
  • Compulsory voting ensures a large voter turnout.
  • Ease of voting is a factor in rates of turnout.
  • Red: Compulsory voting, enforced.
  • Pink: Compulsory voting, not enforced.

• When Consensus Cannot Be Reached, Vote

  • A good choice in most cases is approval voting, whereby each voter can vote for as many of the choices on the ballot as he likes.
  • Approval voting is simple to explain and to count, and unlike some other methods, it only involves one round of voting.
  • See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system for more details about approval voting and other voting systems, but try to avoid getting into a long debate about which voting system to use (because, of course, you will then find yourself in a debate about which voting system to use to decide the voting system!).
  • One reason approval voting is a good choice is that it's very hard for anyone to object to—it's about as fair as a voting system can be.
  • Finally, conduct votes in public.

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• Polls Versus Votes

  • For certain kinds of votes, it may be useful to expand the electorate.
  • For example, if the developers simply can't figure out whether a given interface choice matches the way people actually use the software, one solution is to ask to all the subscribers of the project's mailing lists to vote.
  • These are really polls rather than votes, but the developers may choose to treat the result as binding.

• Socioeconomic Factors

  • Independently, income has some effect on whether or not people vote.
  • The more educated a person is, the more likely he or she is to vote.
  • In comparison, only 39% of those without a high school diploma voted that year.
  • This is a figure illustrating the different rates of voting in the 2008 U.S.
  • The higher income, the more likely a person is to vote.

• Who Votes?

  • Having a voting system raises the question of electorate: who gets to vote?
  • The voting system itself should be used to choose new committers, both full and partial.
  • Often there will be no disagreement, and therefore no vote necessary.
  • If there is disagreement, discussion ensues as for any other question, possibly resulting in a vote.
  • For example, they may require that the proposal receive at least n positive votes and no negative votes, or that a supermajority vote in favor.