Borda Count

[LAYTON Craig]

Jurij,

>In Slovenia we use Borda system to elect two of our parliament
>representatives. They are elected in singlemember districts. (Other 88
>members of parliament are elected using combination of Droop and D'Hondt
>method).

Could you clarify this for me?  Are there two large districts covering the
whole of Slovenia (or half of Slovenia each) where reps are elected using
borda, and then a nation-wide electorate using proportional representation?

Or is there some other kind of system?

>Voters of RR candidate, of course, rank candidate RR as n. 1, and because
>they do not want LL to get elected, they rank him as n. 3. They rank Billy
>as n. 2. Voters of LL do the opposite thing.
>
>Imagine, that there is 100.000 voters and half of them votes for LL and
half
>of them for RR. LL receives 200.000 points (50.000*3+50.000*1) and RR
>receives 200.000 points. Although nobody voted for Billy, he also received
>200.000 points (100.000*2).
>
>It is enough for candidate Billy just to vote for himself and he wins.

Billy would also be the Condorcet winner.  There is some argument for
minimum quotas in Condorcet, but that does kind of mess the whole thing up.
I'm not sure if I agree, but there is certainly an argument that Billy
should win.