Another comment about Blake's statement that if A beats B, a vote for B over A might be intended as a "vote against". Sure, but we were talking about B's score, and for B, that's a vote-for. If you want to count votes-against in victories as well as defeats, then you can call the B>A votes votes against too, I guess. If you want to count victories as well as defeats in a candidate's score, then you're an advocate of Simpson-Kramer. I have nothing against Simpson-Kramer, except that it doesn't do as good a job of electing Condorcet winners, and has strategy problems that VA Condorcet doesn't have. Mike
