Smith criterion: Difference between revisions

We should either rename this electowiki article to Smith criterion, or push English Wikipedia to rename w:Smith criterion to w:Generalized Condorcet criterion
(We should either rename this electowiki article to Smith criterion, or push English Wikipedia to rename w:Smith criterion to w:Generalized Condorcet criterion)
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{{Wikipedia|Smith criterion}}[[File:Finding_smith_set_ranking.png|thumb|513x513px|All of the candidates in 1st place (Andy, Brianna, Charles) are in the Smith set. See the [[Smith set ranking]] article for more information on this image.]]The '''Generalized Condorcet criterion''' or '''Smith criterion''' for a [[voting system]] is that it picks the winner from the [[Smith set]], the smallest set of candidates such that every member of the set is preferred to every candidate not in the set. One candidate is preferred over another candidate if, in a one-on-one competition, more voters prefer the first candidate than prefer the other candidate.