[EM] Hey Warren, is this statement correct?

[robert bristow-johnson]

at http://rangevoting.org/IrvNonAdd.html you say:

"In a C-candidate [IRV] race, each voting machine would have to have  
C! pseudo-candidates and each precinct would have to pass C!  
'subtotal' counts on to the central tabulator."

and  you have a table that shows

   3    4    5    6    ...
   6   24   120  720   ...

is that correct?

is not a more correct answer

    C-1
    SUM{ n!/C! }
    n=1

which is bigger than C!.  in fact, on http://rangevoting.org/ 
Burlington.html you show 9 (presumably precinct summable) piles for 3  
(remaining) candidates.


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