Fw: IBCM, Tideman, Schulze

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. Schulze wrote in part--

  Suppose that the Senate uses SSD to elect its President
  pro tempore. Suppose that 50 Senators are Democrats and
  50 Senators are Republicans. Suppose that the Democrats
  nominate three candidates A1, A2 and A3 and that the
  Republicans nominate only one candidate B. Then a possible
  situation looks as follows:

     40 Senators vote A1 > A2 > A3 > B.
     35 Senators vote B > A2 > A3 > A1.
     15 Senators vote B > A3 > A1 > A2.
     10 Senators vote A3 > A1 > A2 > B.
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D- All clones are not equal.

1st plus 2nd place votes

A1 50
A2 75  (i.e. are 25 of the R's really voting for a D clone ?)
A3 25
B   50
  200

That is, there generally will be an imbalance in the accumulated place votes.

The above example is yet another example of why I suggest a simple YES/NO 
vote on each choice first (i.e. the tie exception proves the rule).  

Any choice not getting a YES majority (51) would not be chosen.