An election is held. Candidate A is the majority candidate in the election, and

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An election is held. Candidate A is the majority candidate in the election, and A wins the election. The outcome of this election shows a violation of which one of the fairness criteria?

A. Condorcet criterion

B. Majority criterion

C. Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives criterion

D. Monotonicity criterion

E. None of the above

Which of the following voting methods might have been used in the above election? (Select ALL that apply)

A. Method of Pairwise Comparisons

B. Borda count method

C. Plurality with Elimination method

D. Plurality method

E. None of the above

Explanation / Answer

Correct answer is

1) C. Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives criterion

2)

D. Plurality method

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