EM list-- What if someone suggested disregarding the result of a public vote, on behalf of the people who voted against the public decision? You say that doesn't make a whole lot of sense? I agree. Someone suggesting that would be laughed off the stage. What does make sense is _keeping_ the result of a public vote, which we do because of the people who voted for it. If it's necessary to drop a defeat, keep the ones that have more support. In other words, drop the one with least support. *** When you don't drop a pairwise defeat, that doesn't constitute tinkering with the results. It isn't a modification of the public's expressed choices. It doesn't overrule anyone. It doesn't do anything to the people's choices. It certainly doesn't overrule the people who voted against that pair-defeat; they were duly counted. They lost. They were overruled by the pro-defeat voters who outnumbered them. Of course what _is_ a tampering, a tinkering, and an overruling of the public's expressed collective opinion is when we _do_ drop a pairwise defeat. And when we drop that pairwise defeat, we _are_ overruling that more numerous group of people, greater number who wanted that defeat. So let's have a good reason for which defeat we drop. Let's minimize the number of people whom we overrule, if we have to disregard an expressed opinion of the voters. Mike Ossipoff ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com