[EM] Condorcet cyclic drop rule

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

>>About interpreting ties, my opinion is:
>Tied rankings give 0.5 vote among 2.
>Two unranked candidates get no votes.

That isn't how we do it here. Again, partly because it eliminates
the desirable properties of Condorcet. But also partly because it's
undemocratic to record a pairwise preference vote that the voter
never expressed. If I vote A & B equal, voting them both over C,
then I'm casting A>C and B>C, but I'm not voting any preferences
between A & B. Not half preferences. Not equal & opposite preferences.
No preferences.

Mike Ossipoff



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