Hi, Steve Langasek: > "Obvious", but wrong. We use Condorcet to enable fully expressing our > preferences among all the ballot options, not just our first-choice > preference. The chair using a casting vote between two tied options (or > three, which is the problematic case) is expressing a preference for one > over the other; if such a preference exists, the non-strategic vote is to > express this same preference in the original ballot. > The chair might desire to use their casting vote to select the more popular | less controversial | more- (or less-)vocally-supported option, as opposed to their personal opinion | preference. > The *only* use of a casting vote that is different from the original ballot > is a strategic one, and we should never allow this. I disagree. -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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