Borda bites (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Wednesday, 3 March 2004

Borda bites

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber demonstrates the well-known flaws in Borda vote counting quite vividly. The Borda count is probably best known as the counting mechanism used by the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today college basketball and football polls in the United States—to my knowledge, it is not used in practice by any governmental body.

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