Voting Methods with Google Votes

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Google Tech Talk
March 3, 2014
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Presented by Steve Hardt

ABSTRACT
Learn the ins-and-outs of common voting methods and algorithms for group-decision-making with illustrated examples in Google Votes. Google Votes is a Google-internal voting platform used for decisions like food selections, cafe names, t-shirt designs, and Halloween contests. This talk covers Approval, Ranked, Range/Score, and Plurality voting along with the Borda and Schulze ranking algorithms and their relation to Condorcet's Paradox.

View part two of this two part series at http://youtu.be/F4lkCECSBFw

Read the paper at 'Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network' http://goo.gl/eAxj9e