Russ,
Assuming that by "drop" a candidate you mean "eliminate, and drop from the ballots, and then
proceed as if the candidate had never existed", this is the big fallacy in your last post:
As you drop candidates, you cannot get a CW until only one member of the Smith set remains.
Without a pairwise tie, its not possible to have 2-member Smith set!
Chris Benham
Chris,
Darnit, why didn't I think of that? Thanks for the correction.
I was going to post that message as a question, but I decided to just go ahead and state it as a fact. Live and learn.
An interesting question now is which of the two methods is preferable.
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