Simmons, Forest wrote: > 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 .
This could backfire. Suppose the sincere preferences of the Bush voters were Bush>McCain>>>>Gore. They'd be likely to choose McCain's list to ensure they got their "anybody but Gore" preference. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
