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<div><span><div class="im">"Indeed, the three slot case does appear to satisfy the FBC as well."<br><br></div>Isn't there a "not" missing from that sentence?</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div>
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</div><div><span>The main "practical purpose" of the FBC as I see it is to assist in marketing the method by giving</span></div>
<div><span>voters an absolute guarantee. </span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I sympathize, but I think that the FBC guarantee is even stronger than needed.</div><div><br></div><div>My perspective is the following:</div>
<div>1. Most real-world elections will have a sincere CW, although that might not be visible from the ballots.</div><div>1a. Those elections without a sincere CW don't really have a "wrong answer", so I don't worry as much about the pathologies in that case.</div>
<div>2. Therefore, we can divide FBC-violating strategies into two (overlapping) classes: those which work when there is not a CW among the other voters, which I will call "offensive" strategies, and which usually work by creating a false cycle; and those which work when there is no CW among the other voters, which I will call "defensive".</div>
<div>3. I consider that a method with no "offensive" FBC violations is good enough. That's why I've used those labels: why would "defensive" strategies be a problem if "offensive" ones weren't?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jameson</div></div>