[Election-Methods] Participation Failure Probability - results & open

[Warren Smith]

>Mike Ossipoff:
>Warren says, about participation failure:
>
>IMPORTANCE:
>The (conjectured) fact that this pathology is 100% common if
>the number of candidates is made large, seems important...
>
>Mike replies:
>...if you ignore the small probability that it will happen for a particular 
>voter.

--WDS: fair enough.  That is also an interesting question - what is the probability 
in the large #candidates limit, of the probability this will happen for
a particular (random type of) voter?

I conjecture that THAT tends to a positive constant.

Warren D. Smith
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