Tactical voting: Difference between revisions

'''Burying''' is a type of strategictactical voting in which a voter insincerely ranks (or rates) an alternative lower in the hopes of defeating it. For example, in the [[Borda count]], a voter may insincerely rank a perceived strong alternative last in order to help their preferred alternative beat it. A real-world analogy would be voters of one party crossing over to vote in the other party's [[primary election|primary]] against the candidate they think might beat the candidate of their party.

'''Push-over''' is a type of strategictactical voting that is only useful in methods that violate monotonicity. It may involve a voter ranking an alternative lower in the hope of getting it elected, or ranking or rating an alternative higher in the hope of defeating it. Also known as a '''paradoxical''' strategy.