[EM] Refinements to definition of voting x over y

MIKE OSSIPOFF nkklrp at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 20 13:47:07 PST 2011



My definition of voting one x over y was:
 
You're voting x over y if switching x and y on your ballot is more likely to change the winnner from x to y than from y to x.
 
[end of definition of voting x over y]
 
 
I should add the clause "...if there is no information about other voters' ballots."
 
Of course that isn't a problem if "more likely" is defined or replaced by "consistent with more possible configurations
of other voters' ballots".
 
If there's any question of what "switching x and y on your ballot" means, it could be changed to "switching the _names
of_ x and y on your ballot", or "voting x exactly as you were voting y, and voting y exactly as you were votinlg x".
 
Mike Ossipoff 		 	   		  


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