@StarkRG
Sorry, I misremembered! First: “Candidate cloning” means nominating extra candidates very similar to the one you hope to defeat. That’s not quite the thing IRV is vulnerable to; additional near-identical candidates don’t hurt each other. IRV is vulnerable to a different kind of spoiler effect: having more •different• fringe candidates can eliminate consensus choices. Asking forgiveness for the long reply, here’s an extreme illustration:
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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 01:20:44 JST Paul Cantrell