Earlier I said that Margins would work fine if everyone were honest and believed in that method's principle, considering it to be a social good that outweighs their own personal benefit. I left something out: They'd have to vote rankings that are complete, as well as sincere. No truncation. I'm not saying they'd have to rank everyone, only that they'd have to express every one of their preferences. Based on experience with rank-balloting, it's highly unlikely that condition would be met. But not meeting it would still be ok if voters accepted the adverse results and didn't consider them a problem--didn't mind the worse results that they'd get by not trying to defend against the results of the truncation. In these 5 short messages, I've tried to cover a few things that I missed in my 1st replies. Mike Ossipoff
