That was my understanding of Bucklin. I'm not sure
exactly what "empty slots" means in this context.
I don't thank of it as "rounds", by the way. I just say
"assign for each alternative the best rank for which a majority (= the integer
part of #voters/2 + 1) and order the alternatives by rank. If there is a tie
(more than one alternative has majority support at rank r) the one with the
highest number of votes for ranks 1,2,...r is chosen. If there is still a tie
....
and there there are some options. In this case a "pure"
approach might be to use the ballots not involved in the tie to use the same
process with rank r+1 defined as 1st, r+2 as 2nd, etc. but only for the tied
alternatives.
Tied alternatives at the best rank is a very fast and
easy way to find the Smith set.
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At such time as one or more candidates have a vote-total greater than the
number of voters,
Is this not supposed to be number of voters/2, plus 1? If not, why? It seems like a first-place majority candidate should win.
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