On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:33:41 -0400, Sanford Lefkowitz
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> In a certain process, there are millions of people voting for thousands
> of candidates. The top N will be declared "winners". But the counting
> process is flawed and with probability 'p', a vote will be miscounte
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:33 AM
To: Sanford Lefkowitz
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Subject: Re: vote counting
The answers to your questions depend heavily on structural information
that you almost certainly don't have, else one would not bother to have
arranged a voting process
The answers to your questions depend heavily on structural information
that you almost certainly don't have, else one would not bother to have
arranged a voting process. But consider two very different cases:
A. Voters are absolutely indifferent to candidates: that is, all the
candidates a
At 09:33 AM 7/25/01 -0400, Sanford Lefkowitz wrote:
>In a certain process, there are millions of people voting for thousands
>of candidates. The top N will be declared "winners". But the counting
>process is flawed and with probability 'p', a vote will be miscounted.
>(it might be counted for the
In a certain process, there are millions of people voting for thousands
of candidates. The top N will be declared "winners". But the counting
process is flawed and with probability 'p', a vote will be miscounted.
(it might be counted for the wrong candidate or it might be counted for
a non-existen
