[EM] Re:The "Turkey" problem and limited ranks

[Chris Benham]

Forest,
For the purposes of this discussion, what exactly is a "turkey" ?
For me "Majority Favourite" is a fundamental standard, so I am only 
really interested in rating systems as a way of resolving Condorcet ties.
How is this for a cute, very expressive method  for a single winner 
election with many candidates? Voters number candidates in order
of preference and also rate candidates A, B, C  or D.  Default rating is 
C.  If  there is no normal  CW, then refer to the letters to see if 
there is a 4-rank CW. If  not then elect the 2-rank CW .( ABs  vs. CDs).
On the subject of  plain Approval elections being manipulated  by  "fake 
information", I think that there is a danger that a majority's  sole 
sincere favourite could lose because some of  his/her supporters were 
conned/frightened  by  bogus  polls published by a partisan media. These 
polls could falsely promote the possibilty that the MF could lose to a 
horror/completely unacceptable candidate
(when in fact the real situation is that this is not  a real possibilty 
and that the 2 front-runners are the MF  and  some other less horrible
candidate), and thus frighten some of  MFs sincere first-preference 
supporters into "approving"  Less Horrible with the result that Less
Horrible  wins with a  "bigger majority".

Chris Benham