Section 17.2 Reference Topics
This site on voting discusses some of the voting dilemmas encounted
in this section:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Voting.html
This site by the American Mathematical Association gives an excellent
overview of voting and elections.
http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/voting-introduction.html
This site presents a great discussion of the Condorcet criterion
along with many real-life examples.
http://www.eskimo.com/%7Erobla/politics/condorcet.html
This site gives some references to Arrow's Impossibility
Theorem:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ArrowsParadox.html
You can use this site to find real-life examples of voting dilemmas:
http://www.archives.gov/
You can find information about the 2000 vote of the elctorial
college (Problem 40) at this site.
http://www.2000gop.com/electionmaps.html
This is another site which offers some real-life examples
of elections in order to find some voting dilemmas.
http://www.electionworld.org/election/
This site has an agenda aimed at proportional representation.
Arrow's impossibility theorem proves that there is no perfect voting method,
but this site does make interesting reading.
http://accuratedemocracy.com/elect.htm#Page2