The election method which is an elimination method based on the Borda count is usually known as Nanson's method. It has the very nice property that if there is a condorcet winner that the method chooses that candidate. Cheers, Joe Joe Malkevitch Department of Mathematics, York College (CUNY) Jamaica, NY 11451 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (718) 262-2551 Web Page: http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk