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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">I don't agree that "Sincere Favorite" is practically equivalent to the FBC. The FBC is about not having to lower your one favorite candidate; it is not about not having to pick a single favorite from your favorite set. As a voter, I'd regard the former as a serious dilemma, and the latter as a trivial detail.</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Jameson</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Can anyone explain this to me? I haven't understood it yet.</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Obviously the reason I test whether lowering any "favorite" causes a desired result is the fact that any one of those candidates</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">actually might be the sincere favorite.</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">I will read the<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> other messages again but I am not sure how you will make a better votes-only definition without doing something</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">similar to this. The FBC of course theoretically is passed by a lot of methods that would not pass the votes-only version. But</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">I don't believe it's likely that, in those cases, the methods are really providing a valuable guarantee.</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Kevin</DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>