I think it is possible, though, to use the combination of pairwise matrix
and the counts-by-rank matrix together to retrieve the the original ballot
preferences.
You could get a more accurate estimate of the original ballots than the matrix alone, but you can't get the original ballots.
For instance, I believe you have lost all the data about similarity of candidates.
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