7 ;Sx  -;MMMM W aaqxM  )*SCondorcet-Hare: 100% Condorcet efficient, sincere, and decisive Strategy-free In practise, Condorcet-Hare (C-Hare) is a strategy-free decision rule. One might expect some voters to [risk] use the common [Condorcet]?] strategy of punishing their major rival(R) with a last place vote. But that would never help the voter. It would decrease the chance that the major rival would win by the Condorcet decision rule. But it would not help the voters favorite (F) candidate to win by Condorcet: because her insincere ballot would not increase the number or percentage of voters who ranking her favorite ahead of the major rival. Thus the strategy could only increase the chance that no candidate would be a Condorcet winner, and that the decision would go through the Hare process. It has often been shown that Hares elimination sequence does not reward the punishing strategy. discuss/or cite a proof Samuel Merrill has shown that the Hare rules non-monotonicity was not exploited in a sample of U.S. professional associations elections and probably could not be abused in any moderately large electorate. A voting system in which the best practical strategy is honesty is clear and simple for the voters. The Hare completion method for Condorcet is the only one which induces sincere voting. Efficiency Of course this sequence raises the Condorcet efficiency of Hare to 100%. It probably raises the utility efficiency of Hare significantly as well [significantly]. In simplicity and information contained on ballots, ordinal C-Hare ranks between dichotomous approval voting and cardinal standard-score voting. Best It may be the best decision rule for large electorate voting. It is quick: all options are voted at once; simple and clear: voters know how to rank options; fair: 100% Condorcet efficient; and decisive. But in small electorates, legislators for example could conspire to occasionally manipulate the non-monotonicity of the Hare rule. Merrill, Samuel, Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic. Princeton N.J., Princeton University Press, 1988 @AO QT|'2hn?  : ;J  "*@AO'2hn 9 : ;hh!h!!Q $ 0x    x ;wzz@;;P ; ;HP( /'=/JP -:AppleTalk ImageWriter ((