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Aims of the Institute

The de Borda Institute aims to promote the use of inclusive voting procedures on all contentious questions of social choice.

This applies specifically to decision-making, be it for the electorate in regional/national polls, for their elected representatives in councils and parliaments, for members of a local community group, for members of a company board, for members of a co-operative, and so on. The appropriate methodology is the Borda count or rather, its modernised form, the Modified Borda Count (MBC) or "Borda preferendum"; (it is also known as consensus voting). 

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Decision-Maker facilitation CD-rom

When Decision-Maker is first launched the main window opens to the Setup dialog box:

Decision-maker has five tabbed boxes: Setup, Ballot Entry, Results, Condorcet, Vote Audit and Ballot Paper. To carry out a simple vote we only need concern ourselves with a few of these options.

2. Preparing your vote: The 'Setup' window

The Setup tabbed window can be used to define the number of options and to create a description for each.

For this example, we have just four options which are offered as a light-hearted question about the voter's favourite tipple – options A, B, C and D - which correspond to Ale, Bitter Cider or Draught.

Having settled on the number of options we confirm this figure by setting the ruler to '4' (A maximum of 14 options are available.)

We can then chose from the drop down file menu to print out ballot papers for the vote:

 

Step 2: The Electorate decides...