Voters' sincere preference rankings: 125: ABBcC 100: BBcCA 140: CBBcA Actual rankings, Act I: 84: ABBcC 41: BcABC 70: BBcCA 30: BcBCA 140: CBBcA B gets eliminated & tranfers to Bc, who then eliminates A, who then transfers to Bc. Bc wins. Actual rankings, Act II: This time, one of the 30 BcBCA voters decides to become principled. What does he get for it? He gets a worse result, someone whom he likes less than Bc--he gets his last choice. Here are the rankings when that voter becomes principled and changes from BcBCA to BBcCA: 84: ABBcC 41: BcABC 71: BBcCA 69: BcBCA 140:CBBcA Now Bc gets eliminated, giving his votes back to A & B. Then B gets eliminated, & transfers to C, who wins. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.