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Re: Generalizations...
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Markus Schulze
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Apr 12, 2002 06:12 PDT
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Dear Stephane,
you wrote (12 Apr 2002):
| | I am an engineer, finishing my Ph.D. in applied mathematics.
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What is the topic of your thesis?
You wrote (12 Apr 2002):
| | I do not understand why some people prefer using all votes
in favor of one of the pairwise representative instead of margins.
Mr. Ossipoff pretends it is better to counter the lesser-of-2-evils
problem. Could someone explain? I think it is related to truncated
preferential ballot because if all votes provide a full list,
margins and approval give the same results. This seems a false
problem to me.
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To understand Mike Ossipoff, you have to know that in his opinion,
when a majority of the voters strictly prefers candidate A to
candidate B, then this means that candidate B is "rejected" by
a majority of the voters. When you browse through the 1996 and
the 1997 archives of the EM mailing list, then you will find many
instances where Mike talkes about "majority-rejected" candidates.
Markus Schulze
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