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LNHe says that, when you've voted for some candidates on your ballot (you vote for a candidate if you vote him/her over someone), then you don't need to vote for additional candidates on that ballot in order to help as much as you can the candidates for whom you've already voted.
LNHe says that, when you've voted for some candidates on your ballot (you vote for a candidate if you vote him/her over someone), then you don't need to vote for additional candidates on that ballot in order to help as much as you can the candidates for whom you've already voted.


In Symmetrical ICT, if a voter had sufficiently detailed and reliable predictive information, s/he could probably sometimes gain by ranking some unacceptable candidates, more winnable ones over less winnable ones. But there's no such information available. One thing that Symmetrical ICT guarantees is that, by leaving some particular two candidates unranked, you're doing everything that you can do to cause some one of them (either one of them) to be beaten by the other.
In Symmetrical ICT, you knew that the unacceptable X was going to be beaten by someone other than unacceptable Y, but that Y could be inbeaten and win, then you'd have reason to rank X, to help beat Y. But there's no such information available. One thing that Symmetrical ICT guarantees is that, by leaving X and Y unranked, you're doing everything that you can do to make one beat the other. Not ranking any acceptable is good u/a strategy in Symmetrical ICT.
Michael Ossipoff
Michael Ossipoff
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