[EM] margin vs winning votes

[Toby Pereira]

I'm a bit late to the whole winning votes / margins / losing votes thing, but my immediate thought here is how well losing votes would handle clones. If C is a clone of B but the less favoured in the party, in A v B, B will rarely, if ever, be ranked fully bottom, whereas the uncloned A could be. So would this favour B in a cycle?

From: C.Benham <cbenham at adam.com.au>
>To: election-methods at lists.electorama.com 
>Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 20:00
>Subject: Re: [EM] margin vs winning votes
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>BTW, I don't like either of  Winning Votes or Margins. Of the 
>alternatives that are equivalent to both when all the voters give a
>full strict ranking I think the best is  Losing Votes (erw). Ballots 
>that equal-rank candidates  A and B both above at least one other
>candidate are counted in the pairwise contest between A and B as giving 
>a whole vote to each. Ballots that rank A and B equal-bottom
>(or truncate A and B) count as zero to both in their pairwise contest. 
>The method considers that the greater the number of votes
>on the losing side, the weaker the pairwise defeat.
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>And not limiting ourselves to alternatives that are equivalent to 
>Margins and Winning Votes (and Losing Votes) when all the voters
>give a full strict ranking, I think better still is  "MinMax Losing 
>Votes (erw) Margins", which I first suggested in April this year.
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>http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2014-April/097935.html
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>Chris  Benham
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