IRV does reduce the problem of vote splitting: if a candidate would win, but is then split into two or more “clones” such that all voters rank these clones in a

IRV does reduce the problem of vote splitting: if a candidate would win, but is then split into two or more “clones” such that all voters rank these clones in adjacent positions, then a clone still wins the election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_clones_criterion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_clones_criteri...