[EM] BC, BeatpathWinner

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

I've noticed that, as Markus said, the fact that a candidate doesn't have a 
defeat that isn't in a cycle of defeats at least as strong as it is doesn't 
mean that that candidate is a winner of BeatpathWinner.

As for the meaning of BC, it was a long time ago that I was using BC to 
demonstrate, on EM, and to website questioners, some methods' compliance 
with other criteria. More recently, I've believed that BC says to not elect 
a candidate who has a majority defeat that isn't in a cycle of majorilty 
defeats. Markus says that BC instead says to not elect a candidate who has a 
defeat that isn't in a cycle of defeats at least as strong as it is. I'd 
have to check to find out which it is. Believing that the former was BC, I 
defined the latter recently, as an improvement.

In a recent posting I defined preference versions of both of those criteria, 
better because they're universally applicable. Obviously, those 2 criteria 
and their preference versions, and majority rule and majority wishes, as I 
define them, and SFC and GSFC are all related.

Mike Ossipoff

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