On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Steve Barney wrote:
> Forest: > > In your example, > > >66 A>B>C > >34 B>C>A > > If you give second preferences any more than 16/33 of the weight which you > give to the first prefs, the winner is B; since: No need of giving weights to see all the mischief that could come from giving the win to B. Assuming the rankings are sincere, we see that A has clear majority support. If Borda is used to decide the election, 66 percent of the voters will regret having ranked B and C sincerely. That majority could defend themselves by running a clone D of their own: 66 A>D>B>C 34 B>C>A?D It wouldn't matter if the BC faction voted A over D, or D over A, Borda would give the win to A. So Borda encourages a "race to the bottom" in cloning. Forest ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
