<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Michael Ossipoff</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com">email9648742@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 04:07<br>Subject: Re: Easy-handcount Majority-SP never elects BF, with defensive-truncation<br>To: Forest Simmons <<a href="mailto:forest.simmons21@gmail.com">forest.simmons21@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto">Uh-oh, Bus doesn’t defeat BF. But Bus can’t be defeated.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">…& so wins unless someone else is un-majority-beaten due to lots of truncation.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I guess Bus could eliminate CW before BF meets CW. …& CW was BF’s only defeater.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But BF *might* be eliminated, & Bus can’t be eliminated (because hir only top-cycle defeat isn’t helped by the defensively-truncating CW-voters. …& Bus, as a top-cycle member, has no defeats from outside the top-cycle).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So, probabilistic-deterrence.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 03:51 Michael Ossipoff <<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com" target="_blank">email9648742@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">SP, only counting majority-defeats.<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">It never elects BF*, but it might well elect Bus. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">*or so it seems to me. …so: unless I’m mistaken. BF has a majority defeat. Bus doesn’t </div><div dir="auto">& therefore can’t be eliminated before defeating BF.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It brings wv advantages to easy handcount.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It doesn’t even matter what the agenda-order is, but, as you said, IA would be good.</div></div></div>
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