Word: deadlocking
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...vote in your state is split right down the middle with one vote more to the candidate you voted for, your vote has done nothing but impotently increment the one's digit in your chosen candidate's column. So the better a voting system, the greater probability of a deadlock broken by your vote, making your vote truly "count...
Natapoff developed a method to determine the best system given two inputs: First, one must know the number of voters. Second, one must know the probabilities of a random voter voting for each candidate (i.e. polling numbers). For example, a deadlock in the polls does not mean that exactly 50 percent of people will vote for one candidate and 50 percent for another, but rather that any random person's vote behaves like the flipping of a coin. So just as you would be surprised to get exactly 50 million heads out of 100 million tosses, you would be equally...
Then, after 89 minutes of deadlock--four minutes into overtime number two--UMass (7-2) finally found a way to beat Crimson freshman keeper Katie Zacarian. Harvard (5-2, 2-0 Ivy) was sent home with its ultimate goal unfulfilled...
Against the Huskies, Kelly opened the scoring with a well-timed header off a lob from freshman forward Spencer George. Later, with his team tied and looking to break the deadlock, Kelly found freshman Kevin Ara in the box for his fourth assist of the year...
After a 30-minute deadlock in the first half, which saw possession swing back and forth regularly, the game suddenly became volatile...