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Clone independence — can running copies of yourself help you win?

Ranked Robin's headline defense: adding near-identical candidates ("clones") shouldn't change who wins. These cases probe it — first the LH-only pair that shows teaming on paper, then the BV-backed pair (BV2142/BV2143) where LH and BetterVoting resolve the resulting Condorcet cycle differently.

The cases

Case Page YAML
Before cloning: A, B, C tie in a cycle (LH-only) page clone_teaming_01_pre.yaml
Teaming: A runs clones, coin flip → win (LH-only) page clone_teaming_02_post.yaml
BV2142 — clone independence (1/2): a no-Condorcet cycle, where LH and BV part ways lesson · page bv2142_4gfwdq_clone_cycle_pre.yaml
BV2143 — clone independence (2/2): teaming succeeds on LH, fails on BetterVoting lesson · page bv2143_9pr3wr_teaming_fails.yaml

Frozen BV exports sit next to their yamls; full audit mirrors in clone_independence_tabulated/. Why the divergence is possible at all: LH breaks Copeland ties by margin → lot (deterministic), BV by head-to-head → random — see RR tiebreak, LH vs BV.