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If you mean that the top candidate earns N points and the Nth candidate earns 1 point, I answered that in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12
by drostie 10y ago
If you mean that the top candidate earns N points and the Nth candidate earns 1 point, I answered that in this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875982
- anderskaseorg 10y agoNo, that’s the Borda count. In score voting, each voter assigns a score from some range to each candidate independently (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_voting).
- drostie 10y agoAh, what I know as "figure-skating voting". I don't know very much about these except that Arrow's theorem can't apply directly to them because they have a different ballot structure; however given that Borda is something of a special case of score voting (in the same way as in crypto; random permutations are special cases of random functions meeting different needs), presumably there are some regimes where you can push it so that it has similar behavior.
- anderskaseorg 10y agoBorda could be thought of as a ballot-restricted version of score voting, but so could plurality; you can’t expect ballot-restricted versions of reasonable systems to remain reasonable. Generally, there’s no reason for voters to cast Borda-type ballots unless you force them to.
- ClayShentrup 10y agohttp://scorevoting.net/GazillionTransform.html http://scorevoting.net/GazillionTransform.html