David Dyer-Bennet writes: >We can discuss the arcane details of "Australian" ballot counting and >confuse *everybody* :-). Well...there's the arcane *details* (like how it works -- I wonder, are the Eastern revolutionaries in Tekla pushing toward something like automatic runoff, or something closer to a direct democracy or representitive one (or do they not care, as long as people get a vote and stop being persecuted?)), and then there's the *arcane* details (like the boundary cases where you can get almost random behavior if things are close enough). -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'