Dear Steve, you wrote (15 Jan 2002): > Oh, and by the "Random Candidate" and "Random Dictatorship," > I guess you are referring to something like Florida's voting > procedure. I that about it?
"Random Dictatorship" says that a voter is chosen randomly and this voter's favorite candidate is the winner. (If this randomly chosen voter doesn't have a unique favorite candidate, then "Random Dictatorship" only says that the winner must be one of his favorite candidates.) Let's say that there are N candidates. Then "Random Candidate" simply says that --independently on how the voters vote-- each candidate is elected with the same probability of 1/N. Mike wrote (15 Jan 2002): > I'm not agreeing yet that RC passes IIAC, because I haven't > rechecked and printed-out the definition yet, but maybe it > does. When Mike cannot see that under "Random Candidate" the probability that a given candidate X is elected can only decrease when additional candidates are nominated, then I cannot help him. Markus Schulze
