CLAIM-2026-09-25-03
The tally uses a strict less-than comparison so the first-encountered maximum wins; the preference order is DeepSeek, then Qwen, then Mistral, then Gemini, which gives DeepSeek the deciding vote in any tie.
Why it matters
The 'quorum' is an argmax artefact rather than a designed consensus rule - the same defect appears in home-grown LLM-as-judge ensembles.
Sources
- ciscotalos2026closed