In my most recent message I inadvertently said that in the Margins method, truncation by some voters can force other voters to use the defensive strategy of ranking a less-liked alternative over a more-liked one. Actually, truncation can only force you to rank a less-liked alternative _equal to_ a more-liked one. But order-reversal, as I showed in "Margins, Majority, & Strategy", can force you to rank a less-liked alternative over a more-liked one. That doesn't happen in the Votes-Against methods. I don't know how meaningful it is to say that Margins meets a Sincere Expression Criterion which Votes-Against doesn't meet, when Margins requires, as defensive strategy, the most extreme forms of insincere expression. And when that isn't the case with Votes-Against. Mike Ossipoff
