 The Australian variant of step 7 treats the loser's votes as though they were surplus votes.But redoing the whole method prevents what is perhaps the only significant way of gaming this system – some voters put first a candidate they are sure will be eliminated early, hoping that their later preferences will then have more influence on the outcome.Another method, known as "Senatorial rules" (after its use for most seats in Irish Senate elections), or the "Gregory method" (after its inventor in 1880, J.