Mike wrote: > By the way, I've heard that Plurality DSV doesn't necessarily converge, > when there's a cycle. Does Approval DSV converge reliably anyway?
No. If the Approval "voters" are smart enough, a candidate that pairwise defeats the frontrunner will overtake him eventually, only to be overtaken himself. So the candidates will cycle in the Smith set eventually, although not every candidate in the Smith set will necessarily gain the lead. For example, if A beats B and C, B beats C and D, C beats D and D beats A, the lead might go from A to D to C back to A, with B never in the lead, depending on the initial votes and the strengths of each victory. -- Rob LeGrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.onr.com/user/honky98/rbvote/calc.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/
