<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On 9.1.2014, at 22.29, Michael Ossipoff <<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com">email9648742@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>But I'll just add that when you feel A>B, and vote A=B, you aren't really falsifying a preference.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It seems that you are taking about not allowing the voter to "indicate a false (strict) preference" but allowing the voter to "indicate a false indifference".</div><div><br></div><div>You may need also a definition that says that unranked candidates (=not in the ballot) are considered to be ranked below the last ranked candidate. Different rules or wordings may apply to methods where this is not the case.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; position: static; z-index: auto;" class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Is it ok to rank A last (on the ballot) even if one could leave A unranked (=not mentioned in the ballot)?</div><div> </div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Certainly, by any of my definitions of voting X over Y, and by anyone's intuitive judgement.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Many methods consider unranked candidates to be effectively ranked below all the ranked candidates. Therefore ranking A last on the ballot (when there are also unranked candidates) seems to me to violate your condition "B voters refuse to vote A over anyone".</div><div><br></div><div>Juho</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>