[EM] Matt's terminology changes

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Most of the proposed changes are unnecessary, or even worse than what's in 
use now. The most important public elections have candidates as their 
alternatives. Some people say "alternatives". Candidates is a little 
shorter. There's no compelling reason to replace "candidate", which, unlike 
"alternative" or "option" usually refers to an election choice. "Options" 
could be construed to refer to options for doing a count or balloting in 
various different ways.

As for gender-free words, the ones you suggest don't have any clear 
derivation from other words, and there are unnecessarily many of them.

Here's something better:

s/he

hir replaces him, her, his, her.

hirs

hirself

Mike Ossipoff

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