0 a voting system in which everyone puts a list of people or things in order, with the one they prefer scoring 1, and the person or thing with the lowest total wins:
The Borda count is a single-winner election method in which voters rank candidates in order of preference.
The Borda count was proposed by Jean-Charles de Borda in 1770 to elect members to the Academy of Sciences in Paris.
The Borda count tends to favor candidates supported by a broad consensus among voters.
It is also possible to conduct a Borda count with more than one winner.
