[EM] Earlier-no-harm
Markus Schulze
markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de
Mon Dec 29 10:19:09 PST 2003
Hallo,
suppose N is the number of candidates. Suppose d[i,j]
with i <> j is the number of voters who strictly prefer
candidate i to candidate j. Suppose d[i,j] : = 0 for i = j.
Suppose d[i] : = max { d[i,j] | j = 1,...,N }.
Then Minimax(pairwise opposition) chooses the candidate i
with minimal d[i].
Minimax(pairwise opposition) satisfies later-no-harm because
ranking an additional candidate can only increase but not
decrease d[k] for every not ranked candidate k. However,
my claim that Minimax(pairwise opposition) satisfies
later-no-help was incorrect.
Markus Schulze
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