A class of voting procedures based on repeated ballots and elimination of one candidate in
each round is shown to always induce an outcome in the top cycle and is thus Condorcet
consistent, when voters behave strategically. This is an important class as it covers multi-
stage, sequential elimination extensions of all standard one-shot voting rules (with the
exception of negative voting), the same one-shot rules that would fail Condorcet
consistency. The necessity of repeated ballots and sequential elimination are demonstrated …