[EM] equal rankings IRV (was: Approval vs ??)

[Kevin Venzke]

Eric,

 --- Eric Gorr <eric at ericgorr.net> a écrit : 
> Based on what I was told by Dave Robinson of http://demochoice.org, 
> the problem with whole votes is that it would allow:
> 
>    some voters will be able to use duplicate votes to bury
>    candidates they don't like, giving them an unfair advantage over
>    voters who don't use duplicates, 

I don't understand this argument at all.  By "duplicate votes," does he refer
to clones?  IRV already allows the usage of clones to bury candidates, and it
doesn't make any difference, as IRV is clone independent.

>and giving them an incentive to
>    mask their true preferences by ranking equally instead of listing
>    the preference.

The alternative is giving them incentive to mask true preferences by order
reversal.


Kevin Venzke
stepjak at yahoo.fr



	

	
		
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