In a message dated 98-05-08 03:51:40 EDT, you write:
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>If "do nothing" is a write-in option, there's no committee involved.
Yes, but "write-in" votes are only really possible in a "vote your top choice"
method (which has other clear flaws such as the vote-splitting problem).
I do not believe it is possible to include write-in votes in any ranked voting
scheme - because there is no data whatsoever regarding that particular write-
in candidate on the OTHER ballots, so the tallying method is not definable.
(Is this true? Perhaps not?)
Mike Saari
