Dear Paul! you asked: > Is clone independence strictly more important than determinism?
I would rather say, a sufficient *non-determinism* is much more important than clone independence since all deterministic majoritarian methods suffer from serious strategy problems whenever there is no sincere Condorcet Winner (in such a situation there is always a majority which has an incentive to change the winner by voting strategically). As I have pointed out a number of times, only methods which resolve cycles with a sufficient amount of randomness are more stable against such strategic threats! Yours, Jobst ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
