New pairwise tie-breaker

DEMOREP1 at aol.com DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Mon Jun 17 21:10:34 PDT 1996


Mr. Eppley wrote:
But to answer your question, here's one I just invented, now ready to be shot
down.

It's similar to one of the methods (Young?) in Bruce's list.
The principle is to find the smallest modifications of the ballots which
would cause one of the candidates to beat all of the others pairwise, then
call this candidate the winner.
-- end of excerpt

My comment--
Changing the votes of the voters is highly improper. One must take the voters
as one finds them (i.e. how they have actually voted).



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