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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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Thursday
30Apr2009

Government of National Unity

DateThursday, April 30, 2009

The peole elect the parliament, by PR; and the parliament elects the government, by PR.  Otherwise you get those crazy consequences of majoritarianism: the US Republicans hoping that Obama will fail; the UK Labour Party producing a budget of debt deisgned for only one year. 

In Ireland, too, the need for parliamentary collective responibility is obvious.  Hence this letter in The Irish Times, published on Wed. 22nd April.

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