This paper is concerned with the manipulability of common voting rules, in particular with the Borda rule and other scoring rules. It is shown that, if one deviates from the assumption of complete information of the voters about the preference profile in the slightest possible manner, the Borda...

This paper provides a distance based analysis of the Borda rule with respect to Condorcet’s criterion. It shows that the minimal Condorcet consistency present in the Borda rule, whenever a Condorcet winner (the alternative that wins against every other alternative in a pairwise contest)...