Independence of clone alternatives: Difference between revisions

There is some controversy about how to define clones for cardinal methods like [[Range voting]]. This happens because there's more than one way to rate clones between non-clone candidates. Warren D. Smith argues that for cardinal methods, the difference in scores of cloned candidates should be much smaller than differences in scores between other candidates, or between the clones and the other candidates.<ref name="RangeVoting.org w112">{{cite web | title=A proof that range voting satisfies certain criteria that no ranked-ballot voting method can satisfy | website=RangeVoting.org | url=https://rangevoting.org/SimmonsSmithPf.html | last=Smith |first=W. D. |access-date=2023-07-08}}</ref> To quote: