>Doesn't this at least partially depend on the presence of a Condorcet cycle? I note one as being present in your various examples. --Allen Smith
--reply by WDS no. My main DH3 example had no cycle. However, some of the voters wished to try to create a scenario without a Condorcet winner (i.e. with cycle) by means of strategic voting. But if all the voters acted that way rather than just some, we got a non-cyclic situation again with the worst candidate as Condorcet winner. So, while some thinking about cycles was involved inside voter heads I suppose you could say (although in fact I think they'd vote that way even if they'd never heard of a Condorcet cycle - often) there were no cycles before stratgeic voting, and none after it either. The examples I am talking about are at http://RangeVoting.org/WinningVotes.html see the part on DH3 especially. Warren D Smith http://RangeVoting.org ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
