Mike wrote.... Forest--
You wrote: If you use a range style ballot, and just go down one slot per Bucklin move, then you could discard the majority defeated candidates. It might help mitigate the Clone Winner problem, too. I reply: But wouldn't that lose the method's FBC compliance? For FBC compliance, if there are N candidates ranked over a particular candidate, then it's necessary to give a vote to hat candidate in the (N+1)th round, and not before. Forest replies... I think you are confusing FBC compliance with monotonicity compliance. With rankings you need the place holders (for monotonicity) but for ratings the empty slots hold the places. Forest
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