The effects of abstentions on election o
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William V. Gehrlein; Peter C. Fishburn
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Article
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1978
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Springer US
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English
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This paper investigates the effects of abstentions on election outcomes in two-candidate simply majority elections. It is primarily concerned with the probability that the winning candidate is the candidate who would have been elected if all eligible voters had voted, or with the complementary proba