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Chris:<br><br>Sure, the alternatives to majority that you used in your alternatives to MTA worked well<br>in those methods, though it made the methods' definitions somewhat more complicated.<br><br>So, in a similar way, it may well be that the alternative to a mutual majority set that<br>you described will work perfectly well in an MMT-like method.<br><br>Of course that isn't something that one could know the answer to now, when that<br>alternative set has just been described, but let's check out whether an FBC/ABE<br>method as good as MMT can be based on it.<br><br>Maybe such a method could avoid Mono-Add-Plump failure, and maybe that could avoid<br>a criticism from opponents about that.<br><br>But, as I was saying: How could anyone criticize MMT for failing Mono-Add-Plump?:<br><br>Before you plump for your favorite, s/he is winning only because of mutual majority <br>support. You arrive and decline that mutual support. So why should you be surprised<br>if you no longer have it? Why should you still win because of mutual support that you<br>decline? <br><br>I believe that people will understand why the plumpers' candidate lost, because <br>hir voters didn't sufficiently accept the mutual support coalition that otherwise<br>would have helped hir to win.<br><br>In general, all the criticisms that you spoke of (Mono-Add-Plump, Burial-incentive,<br>random-fill incentive) don't describe a genuine problem for MMT, or a problem<br>that people would regard as a problem, or a problem that wrongs anyone.<br><br>As I said, with MMT, when examining the situations described under the criticism-headings<br>of the previous paragraph, it always comes to:<br><br>Some smaller factions choose to support and elect a more popular candidate, as<br>a compromise.<br><br>How can anyone criticize that?<br><br>But if your new method meets Mono-Add-Plump, and is an FBC/ABE method,<br>without adding too much complexity, with a wording that isn't too much less <br>brief, simple, or naturally and obviously motivated, <br>then it would be a fine public proposal too.<br><br>Mike Ossipoff<br><br><br> </div></body>
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