$0$ and $1$, in such a way that the probability $p_{a}$ that his signal is correct (positive when Nature is $A$) is given by the equation $$\label{eqn:Condorcet_juror}p_{a}=1/2~+a/4.$$ Thus our notion of ability is a proxy for the Condorcet $p$ number in that it is positive linearly related. The signal and ability model will be formally defined in the next section, but this is all the reader needs now to follow our informal argument for Proposition \[pro:main\_special\]. We assume that the jurors vote sequentially and that each juror votes for the state of Nature he views as more likely, given prior voting and his private signal. We call this *honest voting*. When a jury votes in a fixed order of abilities, there is a probability, called the reliability (of the verdict), that the majority vote is for the actual state of Nature. In general, this reliability depends on which of the six possible voting orders are used. Our main result, Theorem \[thm:optimal-sequence\], will establish that there is an optimal order (one maximizing reliability) which is independent of the actual abilities and just depends on their rank, namely: median, high, low. We now prove a much easier result, which states that *if* 