[EM] MAS defined

[Forest Simmons]

Jameson wrote ...

>
> MAS is good at dealing with a vote-splitting situation ("chicken dilemma",
> so called because in many voting systems it can work like a game of chicken
> between the two majority subfactions). Say that one "side" of voters have
> 55%, but there are two candidates on that side splitting the vote and only
> one on the other side. In this case, assuming voters on either side
> downvote the candidates on the other side, the 45% candidate will be
> eliminated by downvotes, and whichever subfaction of the majority has more
> supporters will win.
>

It seems to me that the smaller of the two majority subfactions could still
down vote the other majority subfaction so that only the defecting
subfaction would not be eliminated
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