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2011-11-30
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under the simplest form of the Borda count, if there are five candidates in an election then a candidate will receive five points each time they are ranked first, four for being ranked second, and so on, with a candidate receiving 1 point for being ranked last (or left unranked).
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2011-11-30
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4 2 # four candidates are competing for two seats
-2 # Bob has withdrawn (optional)
1 4 1 3 2 0 # first ballot
1 2 4 1 3 0
1 1 4 2 3 0 # The first number is the ballot weight (>= 1).
1 1 2 4 3 0 # The last 0 is an end of ballot marker.
1 1 4 3 0 # Numbers in between correspond to the candidates
1 3 2 4 1 0 # on the ballot.
1 3 4 1 2 0
1 3 4 1 2 0 # Chuck, Diane, Amy, Bob
1 4 3 2 0
1 2 3 4 1 0 # last ballot
0 # end of ballots marker
"Amy" # candidate 1
"Bob" # candidate 2
"Chuck" # candidate 3
"Diane" # candidate 4
"Gardening Club Election" # title
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2011-11-30
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Thus, strategically, I should only vote for my submission (or my favorite submission) and not vote for any others. Consider the case where there are 3 submissions: A, B and C and my submission is A. To maximize my chance of winning, I should vote: A, because I give A 2 points and B and C 0. If I were instead to vote A, B, I'd give A 2 points and B 1 point, which hurts A.
The point of methods like STV is to eliminate this strategic voting. If I place A first, A gets my full support and it doesn't matter how I rank the rest of the candidates. I think most people understood the election in this sense (as it is how the maemo council election was run and how Debian does elections). Therefore, I am strongly against using Borda.
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2011-11-30
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#825
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2011-11-30
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2011-11-30
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#827
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2011-11-30
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#828
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2011-11-30
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2011-11-30
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#830
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That's a nice idea. Does it yield different results from the approach that I took? (Can you generate a diff, please.)
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For the protocol: neal has participated at the contest - but luckily his application is not affected by this decision - he is at the second place in his category, no matter if we select the ftstv script or the borda system.
Anyway, do we have cases with the exact same number of votes and hence ties at one of the counting procedures?