Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Steven Chamberlain writes ("Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft"):
> On 30/01/14 14:40, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >   D DM U UM O OM V VM GR and of course FD
> > 
> > I think we can probably leave out one of each of O OM V VM.  If anyone
> > has a preference for O and V over OM and VM please say so.
> 
> Couldn't it bias the outcome if votes might otherwise have been split
> between O and OM for example?  And so better to leave them in?

Thanks for asking, but I think not. [1]

Our voting system (Condorcet with "Schwartz Cloneproof Sequential
Dropping") is designed to cope with that.  In actual practice I'm
expecting to have a single Condorcet winner in which case
splitting/joining options is totally irrelevant.

Ian.

[1] I'm starting to feel the need to thank anyone who makes a short
and non-useless contribution, even if they happen to be wrong, since
there are so many unhelpful emails now and such a bad atmosphere.