Hong Kong

In the consultations on the electoral system(s) to be used for the 2017 election of the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council, it is hoped that consideration will be given to the MBC and QBS respectively, as per these two papers.  It is also hoped that the consultations themselves will be analysed by MBC.

Scotland's white paper, 26.11.2013

If a sports competition between Man. Utd. (independence), Man. City (devo. max) and Liverpool (status quo) were to be played as the Scottish referendum is to be conducted, and if the games were organised by a Manchunian, then Man. Utd. might play Liverpool in round one.  If Man. Utd. won, they'd win the contest.  If not, Liverpool would then have to play Man. City, and the winner of this second match would be the champion.

In other words, the whole thing has been fixed so that independence is given the best chance of success.  In a word, it is a nonsense.

In 1997, when Tony Blair was in charge, the SNP wanted a three-option vote.  Now that Alex Salmond is in power, however, surprise surprise, he too likes majority voting, for thus he controls today's agenda.  For similar reasons, majority voting has been used in decision making by such as Napoleon (1804), Lenin (1903), Mussolini (1929), Hitler (1933), and several others, Duvalier, Pinochet, Gaddafi, Khomeini, et al.

Multi-option voting has been used in many countries - New Zealand, for example, held a five-option ballot in 1992 - and such ballots are far more likely to qualify as meeting the highest international standards.

Accordingly, a more accurate and therefore more democratic instrument of decision-making would be a three-option vote, the winner being that options which gained the highest average preference.  And an average, of course, involves every voter, not just a majority.

Journal of Dialogue Studies

The first ever issue of this journal includes an article from the de Borda Institute.  

http://www.dialoguesociety.org/publications/academia/829-journal-of-dialogue-studies.html

China 天津, 南京

The de Borda Institute ran an MBC experiment in the Zhou Enlai School of Government of Nankai University and, as so often happens, the MBC social ranking was the same as that from the Condorcet rule.  The analysis is available from the menu on the right hand side of this home page.

A similar exercise was conducted in Nanjing University on 18th Nov.

Dublin City Council - a record

On 2nd Sept, 51 councillors of Dublin City Council used a Borda Count (BC) or Modified Borda Count (MBC) to name a new bridge over the Liffey, the Rosie Hackett bridge.  As far as is known, this is the first time that DCC, or any elected chamber in Ireland, North or South, has used a Borda methodology in decision-making.  An analysis is attached.