[EM] Condorcet cyclic drop rule

LAYTON Craig Craig.LAYTON at add.nsw.gov.au
Thu Mar 29 22:47:12 PST 2001


Correction:

>Note that it will always be the best strategy in defeat
>support not to tie any candidates or truncate, encouraging you to vote
>insincerely every time you do not have a preference between two candidates.

This is always the case when those [tied] candidates are last, but not
necessarily when they're not.
eg A>B=C>D - Splitting B & C may help D to win in some cases, although this
doesn't make defeat support any more attractive.



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