Dear Juho! > How about the weighted Borda that I described earlier? Square root > weights would give 0, 1 and 1.4 points instead of 0, 1 and 2.
I'm totally sorry -- I just have forgotten that you proposed this. It will probably work, too, but I'm not sure whether those scores make it easier or more difficult... > In line with what Forest wrote I'm not advocating these methods, > except as challenges on this list. The most obvious problem is > clones, e.g. one candidate from the Democrats and two from the > Republicans. From this point of view one could require that votes 55 > A>>C>B 45 B>C>>A and 55 A>>C>B 45 C>B>>A will not elect C. Right. Neither am I advocating them. It was just an observation that Borda deals better in this particular situation. We should improve upon that! Yours, Jobst
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