Twenty-Third Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture
Voting Systems and the Illusion of Fairness

Friday, November 8, at 3:30 p.m.
Cheray 101, Cheray Science Hall

Stanley Chang, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, Wellesley College

The variation of voting systems used across the world emerges from Arrow’s Theorem, which states that any voting scheme in plurality contests must violate some axiom of fairness. In this talk, we will discuss the mathematical underpinnings of various types of election structures used in democratic systems today.