Voting for a Group Decision: How I Was One Voting-lecture Away From “Winning”  the Group Decision 

By Eline Hagen Hettervik

This autumn artist Billie Eilish announced her world tour happening summer of 2020.
An eager Billie Eilish-fan in my friend group quickly wrote a message in the group
chat; “Who wants to join a Billie Eilish concert next summer *heart-eye emoji* ??!!”.
Five of us wanted to join, and we concluded with three possible destinations we
could go, that were all during a week-end: Amsterdam (Netherlands), Milan (Italy),
Paris (France).

A Facebook Messenger Poll was created. In the messenger poll-system the rules are
simple; you can vote once per option, and you can vote for as many or few options
as you like.Most people (in my experience) will simply vote for all options they might
be interested in, or willing to accept, but not vote for any option that is a definite no…

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