Proposed Statutory Rules for DMC: Difference between revisions

# A ''majority winner'' is a qualified or write-in candidate such that on a majority of the valid ballots this candidate is ranked above every other qualified or write-in candidate. If there is a majority winner, then that candidate wins the election.

# Suppose that there is no majority winner. Then a qualified or write-in candidate X is called ''undefeated'' when, for every other candidatequalified Yor otherwrite-in thancandidate DisapprovedY, X defeats Y in their pairwise contest. If there is an undefeated candidate, then that candidate wins the election. The majority winner, if it exists, will always be undefeated.

# Suppose there is no majority winner and no undefeated candidate. A candidate is ''definitively defeated'' if that candidate suffers a pairwise defeat from any other higher-approved candidate. When no undefeated candidate exists, the least-approved candidate must therefore be definitively defeated. The ''Definitive Majority Choice winner'' is that candidate who, after elimination of zero or more least-approved candidates, is undefeated against all remaining candidates. While there is no Definitive Majority Choice winner, the least-approved remaining candidate is eliminated from the race. As soon as a Definitive Majority Choice winner is created, that candidate wins the election. The majority winner or the undefeated candidate, if either exists, will also always be the Definitive Majority Choice winner.