[EM] please read quick question about Condorcet

[Eric Gorr]

At 6:26 PM -0800 3/18/04, James Green-Armytage wrote:
>	I was just wondering what sort of Condorcet tally methods have been
>proposed to process ballots that are not only ranked, but where some
>preferences are indicated as being stronger than others.

Would seem to suffer from the same general strategic problems as 
Cardinal Rankings.

People would quickly find that they should either use a single '>' or 
as many '>'s as they possibly could, minimizing the usefulness of the 
additional information to the point where there doesn't seem to be a 
compelling reason to bother.


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