I was just wondering what sort of Condorcet tally methods have been proposed to process ballots that are not only ranked, but where some preferences are indicated as being stronger than others.
Would seem to suffer from the same general strategic problems as Cardinal Rankings.
People would quickly find that they should either use a single '>' or as many '>'s as they possibly could, minimizing the usefulness of the additional information to the point where there doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to bother.
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