[EM] Re: serious strategy problem in Condorcet, but not in IRV?

[Eric Gorr]

At 11:25 AM -0700 8/19/03, Forest Simmons wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, James Green-Armytage wrote:
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>>  Take cardinal ratings, for example ...
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>A better example would be Borda.  It works great, if the voters vote
>sincerely and if the parties don't abuse it by running lots of clones.

No, I really don't think Borda does work great as it can obviously 
fail even in the case where people are behaving well.

It is quite possible for someone to simply want to run, who is a 
clone, and then harm Borda's ability to select the correct winner.