[EM] Re: ruminations on ordinal and cardinal information

[Kevin Venzke]

Ted,

"While there is no CW, eliminate the least-approved candidate" is
accurate.

--- Araucaria Araucana <araucaria.araucana at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was under the impression that RAV was the following:
> 
>   Do While # of candidates > 1
>     # Iterate to find the Smith set:
>     While there is a candidate with no wins,
>        eliminate the candidate
>     End While

By the way, this code is inadequate to find the Smith set. It could be
that you have to drop an entire set of candidates at once.

> If you simply eliminate the least approved candidate without first
> iterating to the Smith Set, you might delete a Condorcet Winner.

No, you can't, since if there's a Condorcet winner, you don't eliminate
anyone else.

> Could you or Kevin fill in the appropriate Electowiki page with your
> sense of what RAV is supposed to be?
> 
> http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ranked_Approval_Voting&action=edit

I followed this link, but there seemed to be nothing there. I don't have
experience making wiki pages...

Kevin Venzke



		
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