<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 2:11 PM Daniel Carrera <<a href="mailto:dcarrera@gmail.com">dcarrera@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 12:11 PM Susan Simmons <<a href="mailto:suzerainsimmons@outlook.com" target="_blank">suzerainsimmons@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Yes, Kristofer, specifically it is Benham's "Raynaud(Gross Loser)" the version of Reynaud that Chris Benham devised to satisfy Plurality. </div>
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<div>Let's call it BRGL to avoid the question of Reynaud versus Raynaud.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Can also be called "Maximin"... I think... To me it looks like a mirror of Minimax (using votes instead of margins): The winner is the candidate whose lowest number of votes is higher. Maybe there is a subtle difference that I haven't detected yet, BRGL = maximin. Though that's not how I would choose to explain it to the public. The usual definition is clearer, especially to someone who already knows IRV: "remove the candidate with fewest votes in any pairwise contest and repeat".</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Ugh... after I hit "send" I realized that this is wrong. In an election where voters are not required to do a full ranking, it is possible that removing the candidate with the fewest votes 'X' also removes the pairwise contest with the next-lowest number of votes:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">5 --- A > B</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">2 --- A > C</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">3 --- B > A</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">4 --- B > C</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">1 --- C > A</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">6 --- C > B</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">The "maximin" winner is B but the BRGL winner is A. So nevermind.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Daniel.</div></div></div></div>