James--
You described an anti-reversal enhancement that involved a 2nd balloting. Sure, a 2nd balloting can further reduce wv's already tiny offensive strategy problem, assuming that it ever becomes a problem.
But it's not necessary to hold a 2nd balloting anytime there's a circular tie, though that's one solution.
If a CW's support isn't indifferent, s/he'll be ranked over the reversers' candidate by a majority, meaning that for the reversers' candidate to win, everyone else must have even bigger majority against them.
So the 2nd balloting should only be triggered if there's an all-majority-defeats circular tie.
Here's what I've propsed as a 2nd ballot solution:
If there's a circular tie all of whose members have another member ranked over them by a majorith, then a 2nd balloting is held.
Before the 2nd balloting, the pairwise defeats will have been published, and order-reversal, if it happened, can be noticed.
In the 2nd balloting, the reversal can be countered. It can be punished by defensive truncation. Or, as in your example, the C voters could rank B equal to C. Note that, with wv, they only need rank B equal to C. In margins they'd often have to rank B _over_ C. That's a lot more to ask.
But another possibilit for the 2nd balloting is an Approval balloting. That simpler method won't produce another cycle, and the defense against the reversers would consist of their victimes not voting for the reversers' candidate. In that case the defensive truncation elects the CW.
The 2nd balloting pretty much eliminates whatever amount of reversal problem exists.
Something similar can be used for committees. I'd suggest it for an EM poll, for instance.
To a poll, I'd add the rule that, after the result is announced, there's about a week or half-week period during which anyone can truncate their ranking if they choose to, or can uprank an alternative to 1st place.
(I prefer open polls in which voters post their ballots. That's the way to have proven security.
But, as these ballots come in, reversal opportunities could be obvious to those who haven't voted yet. The defdensive strategy option avoids that reversal problem).
Either of those 2 enhanhancements, or something similar, could be used for committees.
Tom Roiund and Steve Eppley separately independently proposed the candidate-withdrawal option:
After an election result, any candidate can declare that he withdraws, and call for another count of the same ballots with his name deleted from them.
That also thwarts offensive order-reversal.
I notice that candidate-withdrawal is part of your proposal.
For 1-balloting elections, the voter could have the option of drawing a line in his ranking, to indicate that, in the event of an all-majority-beaten circular tie involving candidates above and below that line, he wants to drop the candidates below the line. Then the same ballots, with the candiddates dropped, would be recounted. That would be a powerful deterrent to offensive order-reversal.
I don't claim to have covered all the possible anti-reversal enhancements. We've discussed a few other ones.
For instance, a tentative possible solution involves giving the voter the option to indicate that, if there's an all-majority-beaten circular tie, and if groups of voters sharing the same 1st choices have certain patterns of unanimity and non-unanimity within those groups, in their subsequent choices, that voter wants do delete certain candidates. That may catch be able to catch some offensive order-reversals. Obviously that isn't a complete detailed proposal.
Methods more fancy and complicated than Condorcet are discussed. Though all methods have strategy, there's always the possibility that one of those fancier methods will get rid of defensive strategy need, as I've defined it here. Or at least let defensive truncation elect the CW, without the use of a 2nd ballotiong.
Mike Ossipoff
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