Though dominatedness and the need to influence other voters are definite disadvantages for truncation, as opposed to equal-top-ranking, as a countermeasure for offensive order-reversal, that influence of other voters can also count as an advantage:
When equal ranking saves the CW by ensuring that s/he pairbeats everyone, there's no penalty for the attempted election-theft. When truncation thwarts order-reversal, it adds a penalty. So, if there's a danger of getting caught, especially the strong likelihood of it that I claim there'll be, when people try to publicly organize an order-reversal strategy, it will be very well deterred if people know that it will backfire when it fails. The result will be no order-reversal attempts. And if no one hears of any campaigns to organize order-reversal, then it's safe to vote completely sincerely, and the winning-votes methods are like ideal methods, with no concern about strategy. Besides, as a Nader voter, I'd be pleased if the Dems truncated and the Repubs still tired to order-reverse :-) Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
