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Definition of "beats":
Definition of "beats":
{{definition|X beats Y if more ballots rank X over Y than rank Y over X.}}An alternative (but equivalent) definition of Woodall's used in James Green-Armytage's Condorcet-IRV paper<ref>http://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE29/I29P1.PDF</ref>:<blockquote>Score candidates according to their elimination scores, and choose the Smith set candidate with best score. That is, define each candidate’s elimination score as the round in which he is eliminated by AV [IRV].</blockquote>
{{definition|X beats Y if more ballots rank X over Y than rank Y over X.}}


=== A few properties of Woodall ===
=== A few properties of Woodall ===