Scott Ritchie 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.
Here's the big difference: Borda doesn't allow giving two candidates the same rating; Range Voting does. If my rating one candidate 20 precluded me from rating another one 20, then Borda- like strategy problems would result. -- Rob LeGrand, psephologist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Citizens for Approval Voting http://www.approvalvoting.org/ ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
