[EM] Sports and 'The Condorcet Mindset'

[Narins, Josh]

Well, with IRV, you could only manipulate the outcome if you had
near-perfect information on the votes of other people, otherwise your as
likely to undo your own strategy as fulfill it.

Borda, by comparison, can be "utterly" manipulated with no information,
since you can bury someone all the way down to the bottom rung with impact.

Condorcet, by comparison, (if i understand correctly) doesn't really care
about how far beneath A one ranked B, just that A is over B.

Speaking of "fulfill"

The CORRECT translation from the French (according to "Practical Unix
Security" published by O'Reilly & Assoc) is
"Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to fulfill it."
-Georges Santayana, Life of Reason



-----Original Message-----
From: barnes99 [mailto:barnes99 at vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 5:31 PM
To: election-methods-list
Subject: RE: [EM] Sports and 'The Condorcet Mindset'


Alex Small seems to beg the question, how much more manipulatable is the
Borda 
Count
than, say, the IRV? It seems to me that we should quantify the DEGREE to
which
it suffers this problem.

SB

--- In election-methods-list at y..., "Alex Small" <asmall at p...> wrote:
[...]
> However, because Borda gives huge incentives to vote insincerely in almost
> every race, Borda is unable to achieve its stated advantages.  Granted,
> all methods are prone to strategic voting, but some are more prone than
> others.

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