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Subject: Re: [EM] Discounting ties, how can MinMax differ from Ranked Pairs? ooops!<br />
From: "C.Benham" <cbenham@adam.com.au><br />
Date: Tue, June 11, 2019 10:37 pm<br />
To: rbj@audioimagination.com<br />
"election-methods@lists.electorama.com" <election-methods@lists.electorama.com><br />
Cc: "John M" <john.r.moser@gmail.com><br />
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> They can't when there are three candidates.</p><p>You mean 3 candidates in the Smith set, right? There might be 4 or more candidates, but if the cycle only involves three (like Rock-Paper-Scissors), I think that MinMax, RP, and Schulze all elect the same candidate, no?</p><p>So here's
another issue:<br /><br />
While I think that ties of votes will be rare (but i was once at a Dem caucus for mayor in Burlington in 2012 where the caucus was tied with ca. 830 voters), i wonder if Margins might be tied more often.</p><p>If we're doing RP or MinMax using Margins, how might we order it if the Margins are tied
between two pairwise races? I can kinda conceive how it would make a difference in a weird case. Which is better? A higher Winning Votes or a lower Losing Votes? With a fixed Margin, a lower Losing Votes (which makes the total votes lower) means that the Margin corresponds to
a higher percent margin. Maybe that's better than Winning Votes. What do you guys think?</p><p><br />--</p><p>r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com<br />
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