Groups of Five

Urbano dela Cruz suggested setting up groups of five instead of three as originally proposed. He feels increasing the group size from three to five will reduce the potential for organized groups to target selected candidates for defeat. This table shows the progress of such an arrangement, for comparison with the original table.

Level 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8)

Electors 5,367,378 1,073,478 214,698 42,942 8,590 1,718 346 70

Selected 1,073,475 214,695 42,939 8,588 1,718 343 69 14

Unselected 4,293,903 858,783 171,759 34,354 6,872 1,375 277 56

In this example, after groups were assigned at each level, any remaining participants were carried to the next level as described in Devilish Details.

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