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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: CfD: Interest Groups Surveys
Message-ID: <1783@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Feb 90 20:26:03 GMT
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In article <22242.25da835b@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) writes:
 >EXACTLY my point.  If we go to some sort of STV voting mechanism, you
 >won't be ABLE to vote against a group like this.  The best you will be
 >able to do is vote FOR talk.astrology or some such.

Not only that, STV is a lose.  Something that is everyone's 2nd choice
can be eliminated.