Dear Board Members: This messages has been edited. If it is still not clear, I will try again before I have go to work today. In a message dated 8/2/99 6:46:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Mainegen writes: NC Race Candidate A 253 Candidate B 160 Candidate C 102 ->Yes, I believe what was done the last time. In my opinion we should have a run off election between the top two. That would be A & B. Yes, hold the run off elections, from Wednesday, August 4th through Wednesday, August 18th. ->Yes, Have a run off election for NC. Okay with me. The other election SW/SC CC Race, Candidate A 59 (This person is election in my opinion) Candidate B 52 (needs have a run off election with the C, & D) Candidate C 45 (needs to have a run off election with the B & D) Candidate D 45 (needs to have a run off election with the B &C) -> This is a difficult one,but my reasons for my opinion are stated below. ->Candidate A with 59 votes, won the election ->and B, C, & D should go for a run off election, that is unless C or/and D want to drop out of the race. ->Now you can see the power that people have when they ballot just one vote. A voter might have voted first for D and their second vote might have been for B, if so they just voted against the person they wanted to win. ->The way I see this is that with 136 ballots and 201 votes then ->Out of the 136 ballots 71 voted for one person -> 65 voted for two people ->50% of 65 is rounded to 33, therefore 71+33=104. 104x50%=52 -> Because the 2nd place finisher did not get one vote over 50% then it looks like a run off election should be held with B, C & D. -> Enjoy, -> David C. Young >>