2011/6/23 Juho Laatu <[email protected]> > What is the difference between "least extra votes" and MinMax(margins)? > Isn't "least extra votes" pretty much the definition of MinMax(margins)? > (assuming that the extra votes rank the candidate in question first) >
Sorry, you're right. I was thinking that it was "least *removed* votes". If there are 5 or more members in the uncovered set (which, unlike the Smith set, cannot have 4 members), then the minmax winner could have two defeats on different sets of ballots, while some other candidate could have two slightly-larger defeats, but on the same set of ballots. The least-removed-ballots winner would then differ from the minmax winner. It seems that extra votes avoids this issue, though. JQ ps... I don't want this thread to get too distracted from the central issue; I was trying to bring it back to discussing the best practical proposals, because I saw the discussion of a user-friendly CSSD definition as a side-track.
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