[EM] Some Voting Tables

[Forest Simmons]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Richard Moore wrote:

> Forest Simmons wrote:
> 
> > Correction: Borda Strategy would give the win to A. But sophisticated IRV
> > strategy would likely give the win to C. So Borda's OK on this one.
> 
> 
> Actually, that's an interesting observation. Supposedly IRV is less 
> manipulable
> than Borda, according to IRV supporters anyway. But in this example that 
> does not
> seem to be the case. I don't know how this observation applies in general.
> 
>   -- Richard
> 

I'm not sure which is more manipulable in general, but I believe that in
cases when Borda is manipulated this easily (i.e. as easily as IRV is
manipulated in this example) it doesn't give a result this bad.

Forest