[Election-Methods] Ballots with cycles

[Andrew Myers]

Suppose that in a Condorcet system, we allow people to submit a  
ballot that has an arbitrary preference relation, so any two  
alternative A and B can have either A<B, A=B, or A>B. There can  
therefore be cycles in the graph of preferences, like A<B<C<A.

One reason why we might want to set up the system this way is that we  
can protect voter privacy better by separating different preferences  
during the tallying process.

The question is whether this creates new strategic voting  
opportunities. I have not been able to construct a scenario where it  
makes strategic voting more powerful.  Is this worse than burying  
with ordinary ranked ballots?

-- Andrew