[EM] ERBuckliln(whole) with AERLO meets Strong FBC

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

For rank methods,  the automatic equal ranking line option, AERLO,  makes 
FBC compliance into Strong FBC compliance.

ERBucklin(whole) is the only rank method that I know of that meets FBC. With 
AERLO, it meets Strong FBC.

Should I say all that more tentatively? In case there's something that I've 
missed, maybe I should just say that it seems to me that ERBucklin(whole) 
meets FBC and that, with AERLO, it meets Strong FBC.

If someone objects that AERLO merely dodges the issue of Strong FBC, I reply 
that when you rank using AERLO, and you rank the above-line candidate X over 
the above-line candidate Y, you're voting X over Y by my definition of 
voting X over Y. In fact you're voting X over Y by any meaningful 
interpretation of that term, since Condorcet counts and uses that pairwise 
vote unless you need the automatic equal ranking to get an above-line 
winner.

Mike Ossipoff

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