Eric Gorr wrote:

At 7:44 AM -0800 11/12/04, Justin Sampson wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Eric Gorr wrote:

> Well, it will cause IRV to fail the Independence of Clones Criterion and

thereby be subject to a spoiler effect again.


Doesn't IRV suffer from spoiler effects anyway?


Depends.

The method itself passes the ICC, so spoilers cannot come from there.

Take a hypothetical IRV variant where candidates are eliminated at random, until a "majority" winner emerges. Would this method still pass ICC? If so, is the method spoiler free?


Bart

----
Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Reply via email to