[EM] Re: Margins

[Brian Olson]

On the rule "if a vote ranks two choices equally, give them both a  
point (or a fraction of a point)" it makes a difference in  
Winning-Votes (wv) because it will affect the strength of the defeats  
and the eventual beatpath found.

Suppose you take the example

*49 A
*24 B
*27 C>B

http://bolson.org:8080/v/et?vrr=-clist&if=- 
cname&cand=3&data=*49+A%0D%0A*24+B%0D%0A*27+C%3EB

and change it into

*49 A>C=B
*24 B
*27 C>B

http://bolson.org:8080/v/et?vrr=-clist&if=- 
cname&cand=3&data=*49+A%3EC%3DB%0D%0A*24+B%0D%0A*27+C%3EB


The winner for WV changes from B to C. Margins-Beatpath is unaffected  
and always choses A.

Brian Olson
http://bolson.org/