Here's the corrected strategy for the case where you
have enough polling information to discern the Smith set:
First identify (with the letter
C) your favorite member of the Smith set (or, if possible, the
uncovered set).
Put your approval cutoff just above the best
Smith (or uncovered) candidate X that you think can beat C
pairwise.
Approving non-Smith candidates has no influence on the
outcome, so you can safely raise your approval cutoff up to just below the
lowest Smith candidate Y above X if you don't actually like any of the
candidates between X and Y.
It was this candidate Y that I was trying to describe
in my previous (uncorrected) DMC strategy posting.
Forest
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