Dear Steve, you wrote (16 Jan 2002): > I'd call that a lottery, not an election.
Of course, there is rather a continuous than an abrupt change from pure elections to pure lotteries. (For example: Lucien Saumur promotes Smith//RandomCandidate.) Actually, every method that meets Neutrality and Anonymity knows situations where the winner has to be chosen by a lottery. Markus Schulze
