How to Sample Approval Elections?

TL;DR

This paper explores methods for sampling approval elections, analyzing various statistical cultures to understand their properties and differences through a graphical framework, enhancing the understanding of election sampling techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a visual map-of-elections framework to compare and analyze different statistical cultures used in approval election sampling.

Findings

Graphical representation of statistical cultures

Comparison of properties across different sampling methods

Enhanced understanding of election sampling diversity

Abstract

We study the multifaceted question of how to sample approval elections in a meaningful way. Our analysis aims to discern the properties of various statistical cultures (both established and new ones). Based on the map-of-elections framework by Szufa et al. [2020], we graphically represent statistical cultures; and, by that, provide an intuitive understanding of their differences and properties.