[EM] condorcet/borda

Curt Siffert siffert at museworld.com
Fri Apr 30 22:28:01 PDT 2004


I'm wondering what the verdict is on using Borda as the tie breaker for 
deciding within the Schwartz Set.  Some of the strongest Condorcet 
advocates on this list feel that Borda is actually superior to 
Condorcet *if* it can be ensured that only sincere voting is going on.  
So if Borda is used only as a tiebreaker (which would only be rarely 
needed), then there wouldn't be an incentive to use insincere 
techniques that would normally work with Borda.

Or if not Borda, some other cardinal system.  You'd only look ordinally 
for Condorcet, and then use the cardinal calculations for the 
tiebreaker within the Schwartz Set.

Curt




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