Scott, That would only be true if:
a) The number of throwaway candidates was EXTREMELY large, so the difference in Borda between a first and second place vote was negligible, and b) The "throwaway" candidates could in fact be depended on to be disqualified independently of the election process. Otherwise, in a Borda vote one of them could win. Since these two things are generally not true, Range and Borda are not generally equivalent. -Adam On 8/19/05, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > -Scott ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
