[EM] A Recursive Lottery Shell
Forest Simmons
simmonfo at up.edu
Sat Mar 5 20:09:15 PST 2005
Given a set B of ballots and a way of constructing "lotteries" from ballot
sets ...
Create a lottery L(B) and incorporate this lottery into the ballot set B
to get a new ballot set B' that has this lottery L included as an
artificial candidate in the appropriate rank or with the appropriate
rating on each ballot.
Cross off of each ballot in B' all of those candidates that are beaten
pairwise by L.
If L is the only remaining candidate, then use the lottery L to pick the
winning option from the original candidates.
Else If all candidates beat the lottery, then elect the candidate that
beats the lottery by the greatest margin.
Else If the number of remaining candidates is strictly between zero and
the original number of candidates, then restrict the ballots of B to this
remaining set and apply the method recursively to pick a winner.
Forest
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