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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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FAQ on Inclusive Voting Procedures > The Work of the Institute (5 entries)

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  • What is your role in Northern Ireland?
    The Institute originated from a series of experiments in consensus: 1986, the New Ireland Group’s ‘ People’s Conventions’ .  ...
  • What is your work in the Republic of Ireland?
    Over the years, the de Borda Institute has made two presentations and written a number of submissions to the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution. Its most recent contribution, ...
  • What is your role in Britian?
    The director demonstrated the modified Borda count or Borda preferendum at a meeting in Edinburgh in 1990, where a number of different groups came together to talk of how united they ...
  • What is your work in Europe?
    The de Borda Institute has worked in the following countries, which appear in this order: 1) The Balkans , which include Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia (as was), ...
  • Have you worked elsewhere in the world?
    AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE AMERICAS East Africa In an earlier stage of his life, the director worked as a volunteer maths teacher in ...