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<DIV>In a message dated 8/18/2004 4:31:04 PM Central Standard Time,
atarr@purdue.edu writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Derive
successive plurality eliminations from ranked ballots, eliminating <BR>one
candidate each round.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>That's very good. </DIV>
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<DIV>It doesn't say how candidates are eliminated, and it doesn't "describe" the
method by which ranked ballot inputs are transferred, so it works to hide the
the strategic implications the same way "pick the pairwise winner from ranked
ballots" hides how the various Condorcet-based methods pick pairwise
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