Minimax Condorcet - Satisfied and Failed Criteria

Satisfied and Failed Criteria

Minimax using winning votes or margins satisfies the Condorcet and the Majority criterion, but not the Smith criterion, Mutual majority criterion, Independence of clones criterion, or Condorcet loser criterion. When winning votes is used, Minimax also satisfies the Plurality criterion.

When the pairwise opposition variant is used, Minimax also does not satisfy the Condorcet criterion. However, when equal-ranking is permitted, there is never an incentive to put one's first-choice candidate below another one on one's ranking. It also satisfies the Later-no-harm criterion, which means that by listing additional, lower preferences in one's ranking, one cannot cause a preferred candidate to lose.

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