<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" 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 Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 12:31 AM robert bristow-johnson <<a href="mailto:rbj@audioimagination.com">rbj@audioimagination.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">For Bottom-Two_Runoff, I came up with the term "lesser voter support" to differentiate from having fewer votes.<br>
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I now have written some crude, untested, C code for Ranked Pairs and I just really don't see how to turn it into language plausibly suitable for legislation.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Yeah, it's tough. Here's my best attempt, but I don't think I would actually show this to a legislator:</div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">(X) <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Every candidate is compared against every other candidate in a one-to-one matchup. For each matchup, the candidate that is preferred above the other by a simple majority of ballots is the winner of that matchup and the other candidate is the loser. The margin of victory is the number of ballots that rank the winner of the matchup above the loser, minus the number of ballots that rank the loser above the winner. The presiding official shall make a list of matchups, sorted in order of margin of victory, with the matchup with the largest margin of victory at the top of the list and the matchup with the lowest margin of victory at the bottom. The presiding officer will use this list of matchups to produce a final ranking of all candidates. The construction of the final ranking begins with the inclusion of the first matchup (the one with the highest margin of victory). The presiding officer will consider each matchup in order of margin of victory. If the matchup conflicts with the preferences already indicated in the final rankings, that matchup is set aside and the presiding officer shall continue to the next matchup. After the last matchup (the one with the lowest margin of victory) has been considered, the presider shall identify the candidate with the highest final ranking, who is then elected.</span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheers,</div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Dr. Daniel Carrera</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Postdoctoral Research Associate</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Iowa State University</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>