Steve E. wrote ... Now... can we please go back to discussing whether candidates would have sufficiently strong incentives to rank compromise candidates over worse candidates, when publishing their orderings before election day, assuming the voting method I repeated above?
Yes! In your scenario of 35M Bush>McCain>Gore 20M McCain>Bush>Gore 45M Gore>McCain>Bush Suppose Rove saw this coming, and not relying completely on slandering McCain this time, decided to publish the Bush ranking as Bush>Gore>McCain . Wouldn't it be to McCain's advantage to fail to rank the other two candidates? Forest
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