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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Slovenia uses Borda for parliamentary elections.
Most of the voters vote for one candidate only. This candidate receives points
(four points in case of 4-candidate election), the others receive 0. On my
opinion it's a bad choice the lawmakers made.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul Kislanko writes: </FONT>"Clearly a ballot like
A>B>C>D should be accounted 3 points for A, 2 for B, 1 for C and none
for D."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I respond: Not really. Two countries use Borda for
parliamentary elections: Nauru and Slovenia. None of them accounts points for
A>B>C>D as 3>2>1>0. Slovenia uses 4>3>2>1 Nauru uses
3>1.5>0.75>0.375.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Someone said:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>>> (1) C and D each get nothing.<BR></I>>> (2) C and D each get
1.5 points (average of leftover<BR>points).</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I add:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The third option would be to give 2 points to C and
D (one less of what gets the last of the ranked
candidates).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The fourth option would be to give 2 points to A
and 1 point to B, and none to C and D.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jurij</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>