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

[Adam Tarr]

Scott,

That would only be true if:

a)  The number of throwaway candidates was EXTREMELY large, so the
difference in Borda between a first and second place vote was
negligible, and

b)  The "throwaway" candidates could in fact be depended on to be
disqualified independently of the election process.  Otherwise, in a
Borda vote one of them could win.

Since these two things are generally not true, Range and Borda are not
generally equivalent.

-Adam

On 8/19/05, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
> 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