<div dir="ltr">Many members of this list prefer a Condorcet method to any other voting method, especially if it meets Smith. But how vulnerable are ranked methods to strategic voting?<br><br>Consider these two assumptions:<br>
<br>1. Sincere Condorcet cycles would are too rare if used in real elections.<br>2. Strategies are somewhat common in contentions elections.<br><br>Compromising is almost unnecessary in River, Schulze or Ranked Pairs, but these methods are vulnerable to burying. And still if a sincere Condorcet winner exists, these methods have a possibility to elect a Condorcet loser, because only rankings don't provide enough information to find the sincere winner in all situations.<br>
<br>I don't have a proof, but I think that if a sincere Condorcet winner exists, Smith//approval is the only method resistant to both compromising and burying strategies. This property is valid in all 3-candidate scenarios.<br>
<br>Because Smith is more complex to explain, my current favorite election method is Condorcet//Approval. We don't need complex algorithms to find a winner.<br><br>-- <br>________________________________<br>Diego Renato dos Santos<br>
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