Smith criterion: Difference between revisions

Any voting method can be made Smith-efficient by first eliminating everyone outside the Smith set and then running the voting method. An even better approach from the perspective of the Smith set ismay be to eliminate everyone outside the Smith set, then among the remaining candidates, eliminate the candidate the voting method considers worst, and repeat. AnSee example[[Tideman's ofAlternative a difference would be if the Smith set had 7 candidates; both approaches would eliminate all but the 7. The second approach would eliminate one of the 7, at which point there may be 3 candidates who form the new Smith set (when looking only at the uneliminated candidates), and the second approach would continue until it elected one of these 3. The first approach might end up electing someone not in the 3, however. An example of the first approach is [[Smith//IRVmethods#Notes]], whilefor anmore exampleinformation. of the second approach is the Smith-defined version of [[Benham's method]].