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Exploring A Generalized Partial Borda Count Voting System, Christiane Koffi
Exploring A Generalized Partial Borda Count Voting System, Christiane Koffi
Senior Projects Spring 2015
The main purpose of an election is to generate a fair end result in which everyone's opinion is gathered into a collective decision. This project focuses on Voting Theory, the mathematical study of voting systems. Because different voting systems yield different end results, the challenge begins with finding a voting system that will result in a fair election. Although there are many different voting systems, in this project we focus on the Partial Borda Count Voting System, which uses partially ordered sets (posets), instead of the linearly ordered ballots used in traditional elections, to rank its candidates. We introduce the …