What I am hoping is that maybe candidates and parties in the position that A and B are in will be moved to broker some sort of truce agreement whereby neither party instructs their supporters to use a burying / offensive order reversal strategy against the other party.
Why would there even be a truce?
It seems to me that in order for a manipulation strategy to succeed, accurate information is required.
So, I would like to ask a rather basic question...
Where will this information come from?
Polls are most often suggested as such a source....however, it would seem to me that one of the first things to happen would be for the intelligent leaders to tell everyone else to only provide bogus information to the poll takers, making any such strategic decisions impossible.
I think that this is the point on which Condorcet is most vulnerable, and it would help Condorcet advocates sharp if they came up against the strongest available arguments on the subject. I am basically a Condorcet advocate myself, so it is not especially easy for me to be the one pressing for a harsh look at strategic incentives under Condorcet...
I am not yet convinced that this line of thought has any real merit beyond the purely academic.
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