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<div>From: Susan Simmons <suzerainsimmons@outlook.com> </div>
<div>Date: 7/6/21 12:14 PM (GMT-08:00) </div>
<div>To: Susan Simmons <suzerainsimmons@outlook.com> </div>
<div>Subject: Re: Best IRV Tweak (correction) </div>
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<div>Pairwise support matrix (not pairwise win matrix)</div>
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<div>To be definite, the jth entry in the ith row is the number of ballots on which candidate i is ranked ahead of candidate j.</div>
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<div>From: Susan Simmons <suzerainsimmons@outlook.com> </div>
<div>Date: 7/6/21 11:59 AM (GMT-08:00) </div>
<div>To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com </div>
<div>Subject: Best IRV Tweak </div>
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<div>While there remains more than one uneliminated candidate eliminate the remaining one that is weakest relative to the other remaining candidates.</div>
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<div>If "weakest" means least top support (relative to the other remaining candidates) then we have IRV.</div>
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<div>But if we interpret "weakest" to mean the candidate with the fewest votes in any head-to-head contest (among the remaining candidates) then we have a Condorcet Compliant method.</div>
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<div>In fact, the weakest candidate in this sense is a pairwise loser to its opponent in its worst head-to-head contest ... which could not happen to a Condorcet Candidate.</div>
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<div>Operationally, this method is much simpler than IRV:</div>
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<div>While the pairwise win matrix has more than one remaining entry, wipe out the row and column of the candidate whose row has the smallest remaining entry.</div>
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<div>Under this simple method, would NYC still be bogged down in counting?</div>
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