Re: [EM] proper Borda implementation

2004-09-23 Thread Bart Ingles
Jeffrey O'Neill wrote: I'm not sure of the best way to implement Borda with ballots that don't rank all the candidates. Suppose that 4 candidates are running. With a ballot like: A B C D A gets 4 points, B gets 3 points and so on. But what about a ballot like A B A and B should be trea

[EM] proper Borda implementation

2004-09-23 Thread Jeffrey O'Neill
Hello, I'm not sure of the best way to implement Borda with ballots that don't rank all the candidates. Suppose that 4 candidates are running. With a ballot like: A B C D A gets 4 points, B gets 3 points and so on. But what about a ballot like A B A and B should be treated as above, but what