[EM] Challenging the "instant runoff" name (and "instant playoff voting")

[Jonathan Lundell]

At 11:08 PM -0700 6/19/06, Rob Lanphier wrote:
>It occurs to me that a pretty cool voting system could be devised along
>this path (and probably has been -- please let me know who I'm ripping
>off here).  Seeding could be done by number of first place votes (i.e.
>the plurality voting ranking).  So, for example:

This approach doesn't deal with clones very well, I think. They'll 
tend to be seeded low and all eliminated.
-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.