[EM] Quantifying manipulability

[Alex Small]

Adam Tarr said:
> mind,  this is pretty irrelevant.  Because a Borda election won't look
> like that -  rather, it will look like this:
>
> 35% ABCDEFGHIJKL
> 15% BACDEFGHIJKL
> 15% BCADEFGHIJKL
> 35% CBADEFGHIJKL
>
> And every voter will have to decide where to put the nine dummy
> candidates  - should they go in front of or behind the second choice?
> And what if I  can write in some candidates, just for good measure?
> It's a mess.


This probably sums it up best as far as I'm concerned:  Borda makes the
Communist Party, Nazi Party, and even Prohibition Party (yes, they still
exist) into real players.  This is not meant to suggest that Borda is
undesirable for ideological reasons (if a lot of voters decide to vote
Prohibition then they deserve to be players, even if I dislike it).  It's
meant to suggest that Borda empowers candidates whom the voters dislike.



Alex


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