[EM] proper Borda implementation
Jeffrey O'Neill
jco8 at cornell.edu
Thu Sep 23 19:31:14 PDT 2004
Hello,
I'm not sure of the best way to implement Borda with ballots that don't
rank all the candidates. Suppose that 4 candidates are running. With a
ballot like:
A B C D
A gets 4 points, B gets 3 points and so on. But what about a ballot like
A B
A and B should be treated as above, but what about C and D? I see two options:
(1) C and D each get nothing.
(2) C and D each get 1.5 points (average of leftover points).
Any thoughts as to which is better?
Jeff
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