Forest Simmons said: > Alex, it seems to me that if only the first two ranks get points, then > in a close race among several candidates if your favorite isn't among > the top three contenders with near equal chances, you may want to give > the top to slots on your ballot to your preferred among the top three > contenders.
This is true in the case of imperfect information. I should make the criterion a matter of hindsight: A method gives incentives for favorite betrayal if there exist situations in which a voter prefers an outcome obtained by ranking another candidate over his favorite over any and all outcomes that would have been obtained by sincerely ranking his favorite in first place. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
