[EM] Sports and 'The Condorcet Mindset'

[barnes99]

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.

Steve Barney

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