[EM] Quitting EM

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

I'm going to be especially busy now, with a new job, and I've done all I can 
on EM, so I'm quitting the list.

It seems to me that the most remarkable and most significant and useful 
thing to happen on EM has been the recent introduction and study of 
FBC-complying rank methods. I've called them "The 2nd generation best 
methods".

The FBC-complying methods, it seems to me, are the ones that directly answer 
the most serious need of voters, at least in the electorate as it is these 
days. It seems to me that nowadays FBC is a requirement for public voting 
systems.

But maybe, at some later time, when society has improved some, and voters 
have found out what their alternatives really are, maybe with better media, 
and maybe when the "greater-evils" have been voted out of the political 
system, SSD, which is good for a sincere electorates without the kind of 
serious lesser-of-2-evils problem that requires FBC  compliance, will then 
be the best public method.

Mike Ossipoff

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