Dan, Dan Bishop wrote:
>*** EXAMPLE: CLONE-TRANSFER APPROXIMATION OF IRV *** > >Consider the election method: > >count the first-choice votes of each candidate >while no candidate has a majority of the vote: > eliminate the last-place candidate > transfer that candidate's votes to their most-correlated candidate >elect the candidate with a majority of a vote > I can't see any justification for this (versus proper IRV) at all. If we eliminate candidates and transfer votes, then I can't see how we can justify not transferring them exactly where they "want" to go (or any point in not doing that). As I understand it, Kuhlman's "Correlated Instant Borda Runoff" was conceived of as way of "decloning" Borda. IRV is already Clone Independent, and so doesn't need decloning! Chris Benham ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
