<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi Daniel,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">What I see in the example is that in the WV election, the addition of one voter moved</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span
style="background-color: transparent;">the win from a candidate with a lot of first preferences to one who had had none. But</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">that can't be the intention exactly, because if one cares about first preferences then margins</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">isn't </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">a good method either.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">I guess (though it's not crystal clear to me) that you aren't saying you have a problem with</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">the 101-voter scenario's outcome <span style="background-color: transparent;">per se, </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">only how it can be reached and how it changes</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">via the addition of one single ballot</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">For this to be a general claim of margins over WV we would probably run simulations</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">aiming to show that margins has
greater stability of its result, I suppose. I can see why</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">that finding might be possible. <span style="background-color: transparent;">But instability doesn't seem to have inherent victims, which</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">would make me </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">more tolerant of it.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span
style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">I like to imagine how this would play out if ABCD were four options being </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">considered by</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">an assembly. If the larger blocs are unwilling to vote for anyone but </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">their favorite, then </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica,
Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">indeed the 101st voter will have to flip a coin to break the A-C tie, </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">if he felt like it. But </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">otherwise, how can the A and C factions avoid trying to form a coalition with </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">the B>D </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">voter? The
alternative is to lose entirely.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">(As far as why to bring an assembly into it: Because members of an assembly typically</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">have good information about how many votes are prepared to go in which ways,
and</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">consequently they aren't likely to regret voting for/against some proposal for the reason</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">that they didn't realize another option was viable. Thus trying to imitate the process</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">of a deliberating assembly,
when designing a method, should help reduce voter regrets,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">i.e. strategy incentives.)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Kevin</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Daniel Bishop <danbishop04@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> em <election-methods@electorama.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Mercredi 23 juillet 2014 21h58<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [EM] Retiring from voting systems, quitting EM<br> </font> </div> <div
class="y_msg_container"><br></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">> </div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">WV is not without its disadvantages. Consider, for example (thanks to</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica,
Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">Juho Laatu), the election</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">50: A>B</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">50: C>D</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">This could happen in an alternate US history in which the 12th Amendment</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">introduced Condorcet voting to the Electoral College instead of</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue,
Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">separating the presidential and VP ballots. A and C would be the</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">presidential candidates, and B and D their respective running mates.</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"
class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">Four of the six pairwise contests (A-C, A-D, B-C, B-D) are 50-50 ties,</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">and the other two (A>B, C>D) are 50-0 landslides. This is
unsurprising</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">considering that *nobody* voted B>A or D>C.</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"
class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">But consider what happens if just one B>D vote is added. This creates</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">an A>B>C>D>A Condorcet cycle. I shall assume the Tideman method will be</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">used to break it, but I believe that Schulze gives the same results.</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div
class="y_msg_container">Under WV, the co-strongest defeats are B>C, B>D, and D>A, with 51 votes</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">each. They do not contradict each other, so we can lock all three of</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">them. This reduces the 24 possible orderings of
candidates to three</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">(B>C>D>A, B>D>A>C, B>D>C>A), all of which have B as the winner. IOW, a</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">single elector can turn a tied presidential election into a victory for</div></div></div><div style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">one of the *vice*-presidential candidates! How does this make any</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">sense?!</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">Under Margins, however, the strongest victories are A>B and C>D (with a</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div
class="y_msg_container">net of 49 votes each). After that point, it's ambiguous whether A or C</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">wins, but that's what we'd expect. B would need another 50 votes in</div></div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_7_1406255596331_8"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1406255596331_17610"><div class="y_msg_container">order to win the election.</div></div></div></blockquote><div
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