extractMargins function

extract margins from the results of a ballot count

extractMargins(marginNames, crRanks, cr)

Arguments

• marginNames: list of colnames of the margins in our SafeRank result

• crRanks: ranks of candidates, not necessarily total

• cr: structure returned by a ballot-counting method

  Margins are adjusted for tied candidates, such that candidates within a tie group have margins indicative of their relative strengths. Extremely small margins are indicative of floating-point roundoff errors.

Returns

named list of margins