Yes, and ties may be allowed in rank-order votes. Warren Smith also assumed rank-order ballots to be transitive. That is not necessary. If we allow any kind of votes then there are many more possible rank-order votes. Most of them are not typically needed but the same applies to many of the Approval vote alternatives.
Juho --- On Fri, 5/6/09, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > From: Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> > Subject: Re: [EM] Some myths about voting methods > To: "Warren Smith" <warren....@gmail.com> > Cc: election-methods@lists.electorama.com > Date: Friday, 5 June, 2009, 11:15 PM > On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Warren > Smith wrote: > > > In a 3-candidate election, there are 6=3! possible > rank-order votes. > > Only if truncation is forbidden. > ---- > Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info > ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info