In a certain process, there are millions of people voting for thousands
of candidates. The top N will be declared winners. But the counting
process is flawed and with probability 'p', a vote will be miscounted.
(it might be counted for the wrong candidate or it might be counted for
a non-existent
At 09:33 AM 7/25/01 -0400, Sanford Lefkowitz wrote:
In a certain process, there are millions of people voting for thousands
of candidates. The top N will be declared winners. But the counting
process is flawed and with probability 'p', a vote will be miscounted.
(it might be counted for the wrong
The answers to your questions depend heavily on structural information
that you almost certainly don't have, else one would not bother to have
arranged a voting process. But consider two very different cases:
A. Voters are absolutely indifferent to candidates: that is, all the
candidates
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:33 AM
To: Sanford Lefkowitz
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Subject: Re: vote counting
The answers to your questions depend heavily on structural information
that you almost certainly don't have, else one would not bother to have
arranged a voting process. But consider
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:33:41 -0400, Sanford Lefkowitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a certain process, there are millions of people voting for thousands
of candidates. The top N will be declared winners. But the counting
process is flawed and with probability 'p', a vote will be miscounted.
