A method of controller election includes, upon failure of a master controller within a team comprising a number of controllers, automatically promoting another of the number controllers to serve as an elected master controller and designating the elected master controller as a new master controller if it is determined that the failure of the master controller is not temporary. The sensor comprises a plasticizer-free copolymer comprised of polymerized units of methacrylate monomers and a polymerizable ion exchanger, wherein the methacrylated monomers have pendent alkyl groups of different length and wherein the functionalized ion-exchanger is grafted into the copolymer through covalent linkages. The insurance wager is available if the dealer’s face-up card has a predetermined value, optionally ten. The throttle valve is then positioned through a proportional, integral and derivative controller step to step of the time division multiplexed etch process based on the evaluation to the desired pressure response. The customer may be given the option to have each additional agent conference into a contact session thereby reducing the customer’s overall wait time for the contact to be serviced.