A ballot-counting system that allows voters to rank the candidates could provide more accurate results By Partha Dasgupta and Eric Maskin Eric Maskin winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics Editor's note: This story was originally posted in the March 2004 issue, and has been reposted to highlight the long history of Nobelists publishing in Scientific American. Most American and French citizens—indeed, those of democracies the world over—spend little time contemplating their voting systems. That preoccupation is usually left to political and electoral analysts. But in the past few years, a large segment of both these countries’ populations have found themselves utterly perplexed. People in France wondered how a politician well outside the political mainstream made it to the final two-candidate runoff in the presidential...
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