<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Hi Jameson,<BR class=yui-cursor style="RIGHT: auto"></SPAN></div>
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<DIV id=yiv821332909 style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Also, since ABucklin is in all significant regards identical to MJ, Balinski and Laraki's proof that MJ meets FBC works verbatim for ABucklin.
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Did they use a special term for this property?</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">We used to have<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> an FBC page on Wikipedia, based on content from Russ' site I believe, but eventually this</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">The big difference between ABucklin and MJ is that in the former, raising and lowering a candidate can alter</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">the stage at which other candidates attain majority.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">It occurred to me that it could happen that if you change</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">A>B>C>D>E</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">to</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">A=D>B>C>E</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; RIGHT: auto; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">This could probably move the win from B to C or E. But then you could just top-rank B to prevent it.</DIV>
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