From ebb1c7006d50d8761066bcd5d0e6bbc347b9e0c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Dong <jdong@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:38:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add somewhat hackish fix for PureCondorcetVote.new([]).result
 deadlocking

git-svn-id: svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rubyvote/trunk@33 1440c7f4-e209-0410-9a04-881b5eb134a8
---
 lib/rubyvote/condorcet.rb | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/rubyvote/condorcet.rb b/lib/rubyvote/condorcet.rb
index 65c664d..c0539ab 100644
--- a/lib/rubyvote/condorcet.rb
+++ b/lib/rubyvote/condorcet.rb
@@ -184,7 +184,10 @@ class PureCondorcetResult < CondorcetResult
   def condorcet
     votes = @election.votes
     candidates = @election.candidates
-
+    unless votes.length>0 and candidates.length>0
+      @winners=[nil]
+      return @winners
+    end
     victors = Hash.new
     candidates.each do |candidate|
       victors[candidate] = Array.new
-- 
2.39.5