id: 05888389
dt: j
an: 2011c.00888
au: Ratliff, Tommy
ti: Lewis Carroll, voting, and the taxicab metric.
so: Coll. Math. J. 41, No. 4, 303-311 (2010).
py: 2010
pu: Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Washington, D.C.
la: EN
cc: M75 M45
ut: fair division; voting; elections; mathematical applications
ci: 
li: doi:10.4169/074683410X510308
ab: From the text: The Dodgson winner seems very intuitive and reasonable: when
    a Condorcet winner doesn’t exist, pick the candidate that is closest,
    under some measure, to being a Condorcet winner. However, Dodgson’s
    method is computationally intensive. Approximate methods are more
    tractable. By placing these method in a geometric framework, one can
    understand how different approximations to the Dodgson winner might
    identify different candidates as the winner. Furthermore, the framework
    provides intuition concerning some unexpected properties of Dodgson’s
    method.
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