On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:12:21PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > ii. Unless this would eliminate all options in the Schultz set, > the weakest defeats are eliminated. > > Definition: The strength of a defeat is represented by two > numbers: the number of votes in favor of the defeat, and > the number of votes against the defeat. A defeat with > the fewest options in favor of that defeat is a weak option. > Of the weak options, an defeat with the most votes opposed > to that defeat is the weakest defeat. More than one defeat > can be the weakest. > > Definition: A defeat is eliminated by treating the count of > votes both for and against that defeat as zero in the context > of that defeat.
I suspect the definition of weakest defeats should explicitly include pairwise ties (if they're weak). -- Raul
