Condorcet Truncation Example

Hugh Tobin htobin at redstone.net
Sun May 4 17:46:34 PDT 1997


Markus Schulze wrote:
> 
> Dear Hugh Tobin,
> 
> I cannot agree with your statement, that (if a Condorcet Criterion
> method is used) only omnissent voters can vote strategically.
> 

I did not make the statement attributed to me.  I did, I believe, show
that rational strategic voters would not use truncation as their
strategy, even if the tiebreak system were not "truncation resistant." 
I believe you have conceded that point. 

Regards, 

Hugh Tobin

> 
> Markus Schulze (schulze at speedy.physik.tu-berlin.de)



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