Nice work by you here, and people like Ben Petschel need to be thanked at every opportunity.
But when you say "It's an interesting question how to reduce the odds of such an outcome.", I do not know what is interesting about a problem that is solved by a double nested loop comparing n candidates in n*(n-1)/2 match ups ...
However, I am naively assuming that voters will honestly rank the candidates - and there is currently great incentive NOT to do that.
Nice work by you here, and people like Ben Petschel need to be thanked at every opportunity.
But when you say "It's an interesting question how to reduce the odds of such an outcome.", I do not know what is interesting about a problem that is solved by a double nested loop comparing n candidates in n*(n-1)/2 match ups ...
However, I am naively assuming that voters will honestly rank the candidates - and there is currently great incentive NOT to do that.