On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Forest Simmons wrote: > > Several reasons have been advanced recently on this EM list supporting the > thesis that IRV is more manipulable than ITTR when there are more than > three candidates. > > No reasons, arguments, or examples to the contrary have surfaced so far. >
After I wrote this I read Markus' posting where he pointed out that IRV is more clone independent than ITTR. Theoretically, yes. But in practice I doubt it, because the increased manipulability of IRV can allow clones to sneak in. Forest
