Borda and majority candidates
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Thu Jan 17 11:46:42 PST 2002
Mr. Ingles wrote-
When looking at votes-as-cast, it's easy to show how Borda can elect a
unanimously despised candidate:
Voter rating
<---preferred despised--->
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40 A C D E
60 B C D E
In other words, C, D, and E are all despised candidates. Even though B
has a 60% majority, C wins the Borda count with 200 points compared to B
with 180.
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D- This is yet another example that later choice votes should NOT be counted
if they hurt an earlier choice.
This is yet another example that adding 1 or more choices to 2 existing
choices may result in having NO divided majority.
As usual, in ALL divided majority cases, there can be some *unfair* results
depending on which tiebreaker is used.
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