Assertion: majority | /r/CapableOf | receive the most votes
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text: Henry Watson Fowler suggests that the American terms "plurality" and "majority" offer single-word alternatives for the corresponding two-word terms in British English, "relative majority" and "absolute majority", and that in British English "majority" is sometimes understood to mean "receiving the most votes" and can therefore be confused with "plurality".[note 3] William Poundstone observes that systems which allow choosing by a plurality of votes are more vulnerable to the spoiler effect