Monday
May202013
Ireland's Constitutional Convention
Monday, May 20, 2013 Our first submission was on 31.12.2012 (see below). Here's our second, and it's all about QBS.
Welcome to the home page of the de Borda Institute, a Northern Ireland-based international organisation (an NGO) which aims to promote the use of inclusive voting procedures on all contentious questions of social choice. For more information use the menu options on the right or feel free to contact the organisation's headquarters. If you want to check the meaning of any of the terms used, then by all means have a look at this glossary.
As shown in these attachments, there are many decision-making and even more electoral systems
Sometimes, for any one voters' profile - that is, all their preferences - the outcome of any count may well depend on the voting procedure used. In this hypothetical example, in which a dozen individuals cast their preferences on five options, the profile is analysed according to six different methodologies, and the winner could be any one of all five options, that or a tie of all five! Yet all six methodologies are called democratic! Extraordinary.
What's New?
Monday, May 20, 2013 Wednesday
May082013
The Matrix Vote
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 An analysis of the 2012 matrix vote experiment conducted in NUI Maynooth can be found in OJPS, (Open Journal of Political Science), Vol. 3, No.2, 2013 and on-line:
Wednesday
Mar132013
Review of d'Hondt
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 We seek to replace d'Hondt by an 'ethno-colour blind' matrix vote. Here's our submission. If you open this document, you will find our contribution on page 13.
Saturday
Mar022013
Consensus call
Saturday, March 2, 2013 Roy Garland wrote this article in the Irish News on 1.3.2013.
Saturday
Feb232013
Electing a new pope.
Saturday, February 23, 2013 In 1435, it was suggested that the cardinals should use a Borda Count. Alas, they still use majority voting. Hence this edited letter in the Irish News of 21st Feb.
