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Thursday
Apr302009

Election of Green Party Cathaoirleach - an analysis of the MBC

DateThursday, April 30, 2009

Irish Political Studies has just published an interesting analysis of the Modified Borda Count (or preferendum) vote, which was used in the 2007 election by the Irish Green Party/Comhaontas Glas when they elected their Cathaoirleach/chairperson.  It was written by John Baker of Equality Studies in UCD, and here it is.

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