I wonder if Bennett's ballot was counted per Borda rules -- i.e. Bennetts's first choice receiving 10 points, the remaining nine receiving 5 points each.
If this were a public election held in Florida, Bennett's candidate would have contested the election, claiming that either the election method or the voter instructions were at fault, causing Bennett to cast non-optimal ballot. The result being, of course, that Bennett was robbed of her voting rights by being allowed to vote incorrectly. Anthony Simmons wrote: > > Interesting use of Borda count. Note that one voter insisted > on interpreting it as CR. (There was obviously no strategic > reason to vote the way she did.) > > >> Terrorist attacks top news story in AP poll > > >> SURVEY: Journalists put Afghan war in No. 2 spot > > >> David Crary; The Associated Press > > >> From the first hijacking to the collapse of the second > >> World Trade Center tower, the terror attacks of Sept. 11 > >> spanned less than three hours. But the effects were > >> profound and long lasting, at home and around the world. > > >> Understandably, the attacks were the unanimous choice as > >> the top news story of 2001, according to The Associated > >> Press' annual survey of its members. > > >> The story received a first-place ranking from all of the > >> 354 AP newspaper and broadcast members who voted on the > >> year's top news events. The war on terrorism, including > >> the campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban in > >> Afghanistan, was the overwhelming choice as the No. 2 > >> story of the year. > > >> The deaths - and widespread fears - caused by anthrax- > >> tainted mail ranked as the No. 3 story, followed by the > >> start of a recession. > > >> Amanda Bennett, editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald- > >> Leader, made only one entry - the terrorist attacks - on > >> her ballot even though 10 choices were allowed. > > >> "The gap between Number One and Number Two is so huge that > >> it's not worth going there," she wrote. > > >> This was the 66th year that the AP polled its members. A > >> first-place vote gave a story 10 points, a second-place > >> vote 9 points, and so on. The top story last year was the > >> nearly deadlocked presidential election.
