[EM] SSD or Borda for Utopian electorate?

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Sun Feb 18 15:41:50 PST 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:05 +0000, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
> What would a simulation say about that? A simulation in which everyone ranks 
> sincerely, and the ballots are counted by Borda and by SSD (or, for easiest 
> implementation , BeatpathWinner)?
> 

Is there strategic nomination in your utopian society?  Because then
Borda screws everything up really, really fast.

Even if nomination isn't explicitly strategic, all that's required is
for members of one Borda team to be more likely to run for office than
another.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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