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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I never really groked why WV (or LV) would represent defeat strength better than margins.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I just don't get it. WV, that is.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- robert</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"=""><i>Powered by Cricket Wireless</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>Forest Simmons<forest.simmons21@gmail.com></forest.simmons21@gmail.com></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Sat, Sep 3, 2022 8:19 PM</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>EM;Richard Lung;robert bristow-johnson;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b></div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>Defeat Strength</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto">Suppose there are ten thousand voters, and ...<div dir
="auto">A defeats B, 100 to 0, (9900 abstentions)</div><div dir="auto">C defeats E, 5001 to 4999, and</div><div dir="auto">F defeats G, 1000 to 500 (8500 abstentions)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Which pair should have defeat strength priority?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Under wv, the (C, E) pair has priority.</div><div dir="auto">Under margins (F, G) has priority, and</div><div dir="auto">under losing votes (A, B) has priority.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But which defeat should be considered most secure statistically? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Forest</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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