<p dir="ltr">Of course the conditional vote option needs for voters to indicate their favorite. But that isn't so onerous when conditional votes bring CD compliance (not just Weak CD).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Besides, it's more expressive. Anyone getting a favorite mark from a majority should automatically win.</p>
<p dir="ltr">By the way, in any Bucklin version that allows equal ranking & doesn't assume (as Bucklin B or A does) that a voter who equal top-ranks will top rank all hir top-set & not vote for anyone else--For any such method:</p>
<p dir="ltr">If a ballot equal-ranks n candidates at a rank-position, then the count-rule should skip n-1 rounds before giving the votes at that ballot's next rank.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In pairwise-count or Bucklin, the favorite-mark shouldn't be counted in the rank count, because doing so would prevent equal top-ranking.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A better statement of the definition of the conditional votes option:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Using Approval as an example:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Say the A voters give to B some combination of conditional & unconditional votes.</p>
<p dir="ltr">...& vice-versa from the B voters to A.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Say that the fraction of A voters voting for B (called Fab)<br>
is greater than the fraction of the B voters voting for A (called Fba).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Then disregard just enough of the A voters' conditional votes for B, so as to make Fab = Fba.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If the number of A voters' votes for B that are conditional isn't sufficient to achieve that, then disregard all of the A voters' conditional votes for B.</p>
<p dir="ltr">...in order to achieve it as nearly as possible.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That applies straightforwardly to Bucklin.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This can be used with rankings:</p>
<p dir="ltr">When some 1st-rankings are conditional, compare 1st-rankings just as votes are compared in Approval. ...& disregard conditional 1st-rankings accordingly.</p>
<p dir="ltr">When some 2nd-rankings are conditional, compare the sum of 1st + 2nd rankings (of B by A voters, & vice-versa), just as votes are compared in Approval. ...& disregard 2nd-rankings accordingly.</p>
<p dir="ltr">With conditional votes. any method meets CD. ...in it's strong original version, not just Weak CD.</p>
<p dir="ltr">CD fix:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Requirement:</p>
<p dir="ltr">While voting as described in the premise, the A voters should have a way of voting by which B doesn't win.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(end of CD requirement)</p>
<p dir="ltr">...needed because complying methods need A voters to use a special option.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Michael Ossipoff<br><br><br></p>