MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
> ...and if you truncate higher then you lower your expectation. That
> truncation is punished by Borda. With any method, you worsen your outcome if
> you don't support a needed compromise.
>
> I didn't mean that with every method all truncation is punished.
> I meant that, with any method, you'll often regret truncation.
That clears it up for me, but you are talking about a voter making a
bad choice of truncation; in other words, using the wrong strategy.
Of course, all methods punish poor strategy.
-- Richard