<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7226.0">
<TITLE>Election-methods Digest, Vol 15, Issue 33</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV id=idOWAReplyText7535 dir=ltr>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Here's the corrected strategy for the case where you
have enough polling information to discern the Smith set: </FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV id=idOWAReplyText95460 dir=ltr>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>First identify (with the letter
C) your favorite member of the Smith set (or, if possible, the
uncovered set).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Put your approval cutoff just above the best
Smith (or uncovered) candidate X that you think can beat C
pairwise.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Approving non-Smith candidates has no influence on the
outcome, so you can safely raise your approval cutoff up to just below the
lowest Smith candidate Y above X if you don't actually like any of the
candidates between X and Y.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>It was this candidate Y that I was trying to describe
in my previous (uncorrected) DMC strategy posting.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Forest</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr> </DIV></DIV></DIV>
</BODY>
</HTML>