Other ranked methods — the shelf, not a method¶
This folder is not a voting method. Its siblings in 06_Other each are one — Plurality, RCV-IRV, STV, Range, 3-2-1 — and each earned a folder by having runnable cases/ to put in it. This is the shelf for ranked methods that don't yet: one concept page apiece, no YAML, no tabulation.
| Page | What it is | Why it's here and not in its own folder |
|---|---|---|
| Borda count | positional scoring — 1st place = N−1 points, 2nd = N−2, … — and what it means that those "scores" are manufactured from ranks the voter never rated | the repo teaches Borda as the reverse of scores vs. ranks, a concept move rather than a method to run; the LH engine has no Borda tabulation |
| Agenda voting | sequential pairwise majority votes down a fixed list — change the agenda, change the winner, same ballots | a parliamentary procedure for motions, not a candidate election; it has no canonical result to freeze, because the agenda is a parameter |
The graduation rule: the day one of these gets runnable cases, it moves out into its own 06_Other/<Method>/ folder with a README.md and a cases/ subfolder, like every other method here — and leaves a redirect behind. Until then, a folder holding one Markdown file and no ballots would be worse than the file.
Neither page is a dead end. Borda lives on inside methods that are runnable — the Borda-elimination family, Baldwin & Nanson — and agenda voting is the foil for Ranked Robin, which runs every pairwise matchup symmetrically instead of a hand-picked sequence of them.