By my preliminary count, Approval wins the Voters' Choice count, getting more final Approval votes than any of the other alternatives did. Approval won the Approval count, and, as I said yesterday, Approval was the voted CW. And so both of the methods that were designated chose Approval as the alternative that their voter's final approval set was extended down to, in that voter's ranking. In other words, the voters who designated a method gave a final Approval vote to Approval, and to everything that they ranked higher than Approval. In that preliminary count, the Margins methods and the best wv methods are tied for 2nd place. But of course an output ranking should be determined from rankings only, and even then the meaning of the output ranking would be questionable if people's rankings were influenced by strategy having to do with optimizing the single winner. Rob LG can post an output ranking, determined by deleting the winner from the rankings and re-counting, and repeating that for each successive position in the output ranking. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
