Chris Benham wrote:
What I don't understand is the difference between "winning votes" (which I'm
familiar with) and "votes for", as they are both defined on page 13 of
Marcus
Shulze's paper, pasted below.
http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf
<snip>
Example 3 (/winning votes/): When the strength of the pairwise defeat
/ef /is measured
by /winning votes/, then the strength is measured primarily by the
absolute number
N[/e/,/f/] of votes for the winner of this pairwise defeat.
Example 5 (/votes for/): When the strength of the pairwise defeat /ef
/is measured by
/votes for/, then the strength is measured primarily by the absolute
number N[/e/,/f/] of
votes for candidate /e/.
I'm not Markus (or Kevin), but "votes for" sounds like pairwise
opposition. That is, the strength of "e beats f" is the number of voters
who prefer e to f, whereas for wv, the strength of "e beats f" is the
number of voters who prefer e to f if this is greater than the number of
voters who prefer f to e, otherwise zero.
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