<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">It then becomes Instant Runoff by Schwartz Set. Nothing wrong with that except as with all instant runoff methods it is no longer summable and requires multiple passes through the whole set of votes. In this case two passes. First pass, find the Schwartz set, second pass find the highest ranked votes among that set.<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Chris Benham wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">But what is wrong with my suggestion of first dropping from the ballots the non-members of the<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><BR>Schwartz set?</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>