[EM] Going down one rank position per Bucklin round

[Paul Kislanko]

Mike Ossippoff wrote:
> 
> 
> Forest--
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> If you use a range style ballot, and just go down one slot 
> per Bucklin move, 
> then you could discard the majority defeated candidates.  It 
> might help 
> mitigate the Clone Winner problem, too.
> 
> I reply:
> 
> But wouldn't that lose the method's  FBC compliance? For FBC 
> compliance, if 
> there are N candidates ranked over a particular candidate, then it's 
> necessary to give a vote to hat candidate in the (N+1)th 
> round, and not 
> before.
> 

I think what Mike wrote is the same as what Forest wrote. It's hard to parse
Mike's statements, but "not before" the "(N+1)th" round is the same as
saying don't count it in the Nth round, where the winner was determined.