[EM] Re: Approval Strategy

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

  A better definition of "tied or near-tied" is:

For a parrticular voter, two candidates are tied or near-tied if, by voting 
for one of them and not for the other, that voter could make or break a tie 
for first place between them.

[end of definition]

  In the inequalities in my previous posting, I may have written "F1" & "F2" 
when I meant "U1" & "U2".

In those inequalitlies I was assuming that the probabililty, if F1 outpolls 
F2, that votiing for F1 and not for X makes or breaks a tie between F1 & X 
is the same as the probability  if F2 outpolls F1, voting for X and not for 
F2 will make or break a tie between X & F2. Either those probabilities are 
the same or they're unknown, which amounts to the same thing.

Mike Ossipoff

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