The mathematical method that could offer a fairer way to vote
It allows you to give more support to your preferred outcome
ALICE WAS soaked. So was the Mouse, the Eaglet, the Dodo and all the other bedraggled creatures that emerged from the pool of tears Alice had shed at the bottom of the rabbit-hole. After the Mouse tried talking them out of their sogginess with the “driest” speech he knew, the Dodo proposed “more energetic remedies”. Alice and the animals began racing around a circle, with no start or finish line, and no obvious winner. It was, the Dodo said, a “caucus-race”.
This article appeared in the Christmas Specials section of the print edition under the headline “The public squared”
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