[EM] clone-immunity - definition please?

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Warren,

you wrote (26 Jan 2007):

> If we have voting methods that input rank orderings WITH EQUALITIES
> permitted, then it is not clear to me what immunity to cloning
> should even mean, exactly. Throw in nondeterminism such as random
> tiebreaking, and it gets murkier still.
>
> Does anybody have a nice definition that does not contradict itself
> in short order?

Please read section 4.5 of my paper:
http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf

Markus Schulze