Nobel Prize winner offers new voting method

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Exponent) - A new method of voting, offered by a Nobel Prize-winning speaker Friday, seemed like a good alternative – at least hypothetically, said a student.

Eric Maskin, the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize winner, spoke to a full Krannert Auditorium about different methods of voting during presidential elections.

Maskin gave examples of past elections to address the presentation’s overarching question, “How should presidents be elected?”

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