Chapter 13 - Voting and Apportionment - 13.2 Flaws of Voting Methods - Exercise Set 13.2 - Page 863: 24

It is not possible for a democratic voting system to satisfy each of the fairness criteria.

It is not possible for a democratic voting system to satisfy each of the fairness criteria. A mathematician called Kenneth Arrow demonstrated in 1952 that there is no voting system which is able to satisfy all the fairness criteria. This theorem is called Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.