[EM] EXAMPLES OF STV-VOTING PATHOLOGIES

[LAYTON Craig]

Douglas Greene wrote (in part): 
  > A final and very important remark on strategic voting is this. > A very
common voter strategy, adopted by voters who do not want > to "waste their
vote", is to artificially rank the most-liked and > most-hated among the two
perceived frontrunners "first" and "last", > even if the voter does not
really think those two candidates are > the best and worst. It is precisely
this voter strategy which causes > 3rd party candidates to have no chance in
the "plurality voting" > system currently in use throughout in the US.  
 
I can't think of a voting method to which this strategy does not apply.  If
the voter is correct in their assumption that the two candidates are
front-runners, it is also usually a pretty good strategy.