Legal Opinion
Dudum v. Arntz
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 20, 2011No. 10-17198PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
In 1873, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, spotted what he took to be an “extraordinary injustice”: using simple plurality voting to determine the winners of elections. 1 Dodgson, celebrated for his whimsical classics Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, was also a mathematician who developed election systems — meaning, simply, methods for translating preferences, or votes, into winners of elections. Dodgson disliked simple plurality voting because, in fields with several candidates, it can elect a…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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