On 01/30/2012 05:00 PM, omd wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 4:31 AM, 441344 <441...@gmail.com> wrote: >> #################################ELECTIONS################################# > > On each election I vote conditionally for the candidate whose name is > closest to the first word of the primary headline on > http://www.nytimes.com/ immediately before the end of the voting > period, using ASCII.
As I interpret this algorithm, if the election ended now, the first word is "Syrian", and the asciibetically closest candidate would be G. for Herald (4 < G < S), Murphy for IADop (4 < M < S), and Yally for Registrar (Sy-Mu=6:4; Ya-Sy=6:-24).
