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As well as Tideman CPO-STV see also Sequential STV I D Hill & S Gazeley, paper 4 Voting Matters 15 at the Electoral Reform Society website<BR>
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http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/publications/votingmatters/15P4.htm<BR>
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This paper sets out a solution to the 'eliminate the lowest' problem of STV and attempts to identify the set of n candidates to fill n seats unbeatable by any other candidate. <BR>
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In the one seat situation this method always selects the Condorcet winner.<BR>
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Theoretical examples ( highly unlikely in practice) can be produced in which this method gives very bad results.<BR>
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David Gamble</FONT></HTML>