Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Borda Count

[Brian Bartholomew (bb]

> So while the Borda Count promotes candidates who are are more
> broadly accepted in a community, is it really necessary if the
> community uses collaborative decision-making?

If your decisionmaking process is as collaborative as you think it is,
then Borda Count will return the same results.  These types of voting
systems give you a numerical measurement of who claims to agree and
how much.  Perhaps every non-unanimous decision should be announced
with: 'and the other 47 of us agree that we're going to gang up and
force Sam to eat Lima beans, which he hates'.  If it's uncomfortable
to say, that's a hint that it should be even more uncomfortable to do.

                                                        Brian