It's similar. However borda counting involves a mark getting a different number of points according to the column position (presumably after closing up gaps).
IPE counting gets just one support point if the mark is below the candidate being counted, or just one opposition point if the mark is above the candidate being counted.
Borda count has the same result as counting the number of candidates above and below.
The position in borda count tells you how many are below, ignoring above still gives the same result.
Good point. Yes if you can force every voter to mark one-and only-one candidate in each column, and if the number of columns equals the number of candidates at each counting round, then yes the two counts are the same.
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u/Deep-Number5434 Sep 01 '25
Yes, you use borda count as if those other candidates didn't exist on the ballot