Forest wrote in part- It seems to me that election methods can potentially have two kinds of problems with clones: (1) Some methods tend to give an advantage to parties that runs lots of clones. (2) Other methods tend to penalize parties that run lots of clones. --- D- The *cloneness* level is somewhat arbitrary regarding less than 100 percent clones.
Again- N1 A > B N2 B > A C comes along. If C is ranked before B by ALL the voters, then B becomes a 100 percent clone of C. If only a mere 99 percent of the voters rank C ahead of B, then is B still a clone in reality land ??? There obviously is no magic percentage in the 50 to 100 percentage range that makes a defeated choice less of a clone. Even in the original A and B pairing, one of them may be a clone in reality. 99 A > B 1 B > A Is B a clone of A (or a direct opposite) ???
