[EM] "Margin Sorted Minimum Losing Votes (equal rated whole)" candidate in poll

[Joshua Boehme]

My non-rigorous guess is that it probably does require a sub-cycle, as that's the Achilles heel for a lot of methods that aren't strictly cloneproof.

The concern for me is that it suggests clusters of similar candidates (not literal clones) can distort each others' results. For example, suppose voters first vote on left versus right, then rank within those two categories.


On 4/12/24 23:32, Chris Benham wrote:
> Thanks. Do you think that it is possible to make such an example without a sub-cycle?
> 
> Because if not I am not overly perturbed. If you don't have a ready answer I'll get around to
> thinking more about it myself.
> 
> We have the option of solving the clone problem by making it a one-at-time elimination method:
> use it find the lowest-ordered candidate, then eliminate that candidate and repeat and so on until
> one remains.
> 
> (But of course that makes it more complex and possibly stuffs up mono-raise.)
> 
> In your first matrix it was the diagonal row of "500"s that confused me. I was expecting it to be blanks
> or zeroes.
> 
> Chris