On 14 Mar 2005 at 22:40 PST, Russ Paielli wrote:
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> Note, however, that as you proceed up toward the Approval winner, the number
> of blacked-out elements needed to win decreases. The AW himself needs
> none. In other words, the Approval winner needs no pairwise wins to win the
> election. That's the mirror image of the fact that the least-approved
> candidate can be the CW, as Forest pointed out the other day.
Hi Russ,
I must respectfully disagree.
Your 'black-only' row method could eliminate the AW at an earlier stage.
Ted
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