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

[Rob LeGrand]

Scott Ritchie 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.

Here's the big difference: Borda doesn't allow giving two
candidates the same rating; Range Voting does.  If my rating one
candidate 20 precluded me from rating another one 20, then Borda-
like strategy problems would result.

--
Rob LeGrand, psephologist
rob at approvalvoting.org
Citizens for Approval Voting
http://www.approvalvoting.org/


		
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