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voting paradoxes  

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  • Voting paradoxes are unexpected and counterintuitive outcomes of voting. Very often one does not actually observe the paradoxes even though they have occurred, because the information needed for the observation is not available. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Voting Paradoxes]

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