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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 > What is a Preferendum? > What consensual voting procedures can be used in elections?

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If the election is for two or more representatives or committee members or whatever, all of whom will then have the same status, the recommended procedure is a Quota Borda System ( qbs ). (In this context, the word ‘status’ means that all the persons elected are then mp s, or whatever.)

When each of the persons elected is to have different status – one a chairperson, one a secretary and so on; or one a minister of this, another a minister of that – then the appropriate methodology is the Matrix Vote.

Both qbs and the matrix vote are outlined elsewhere on this web-site, and explained in detail in Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy, (Springer, 2007).

Last updated on September 19, 2008 by Deborda