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.
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