Must write several short messages, so that I won't lose as much writing time each time Netcom screws up and locks the keyboard. Blake said that in Votes-Against, everyone would start ranking everyone, even if indifferent between them, and then the method would become equivalent to Margins, except for offensive strategies. Big difference. Say everyone starts ranking everyone, even without having a preference between them, and that, as Blake suggests, that will lead to order-reversal the way marijuana leads to heroin. But what's the Votes-Against defense against order-reversal? Strategic truncation. Avoid ranking more candidates than you estimate necessary. Oh what a cruel dilemma that puts the strategists in! They can't resist ranking everyone,even though they know that it sets them up for the order-reversal that everyone has been led to because of discovering the benefits of ranking everyone. Must quit & write again Mike
