[EM] Borda?????

[Dick Burkhart]

Except that the restricted Borda that I've described is the best general
purpose voting method as far as I can tell. Sure you can do somewhat better
in particular circumstances, such as when you want true proportionality, or
when you have non-partisan judges, etc. 

BTW, when I've run tests on actual sets of votes from Glasgow, most of the
time Borda, Condorcet, and Approval give the same result! 

Dick Burkhart
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[mailto:election-methods-bounces at lists.electorama.com] On Behalf Of robert
bristow-johnson
Sent: January 06, 2014 11:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [EM] Borda?????

On 1/6/14 1:52 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
> Heh. R B-J correctly says that Borda is a restricted version of Score. 
> But whereas he'd locate Borda's flaw in the "score" part, I'd put it 
> in the "restricted" part.
i do too, Jameson.  Score is bad (how do you score your second choice?) but
Borda is worser because of the restriction.  the difference in preference
between #1 and #2 might be far less than that between #2 and
#3 and Borda does not know nor care about it.  if i hate #2, Borda scores
him/her too highly, and if i like #2 (just not as much as #1), Borda handles
that just as poorly.

there's nothing good about Borda.

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r b-j                  rbj at audioimagination.com

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