[EM] Range voting is just a Borda count with a bunch of throwaway candidates

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Fri Aug 19 01:08:55 PDT 2005


Title more or less says it.  Imagine we have range voting from 1 to 20,
with 9 candidates.  Then imagine we have a simple Borda count with 20
candidates, 11 of which we can presume are trash - joke write-ins, dead
candidates, disqualified people, hopeless losers, whatever.  The end
results are the same, including all the nasty stuff we complain about
Borda counts.

-Scott






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