Variants of the Borda Election Procedure*

• In Event: Mapping Votes to Seats and Other Outcomes

Brief Overview

We use simulation to compare versions of the Borda count as to identification of Condorcet winners and resilience against ballot truncation. Then we ask which candidates can win possibly win the election under a favorable point count.

Authors

• Jean-Charles Gregoire, INRS Universite de Recherche

• Angele Hamel

• Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University