How does Bourda Count resolve a tie vote

[Kathleen Schluter]

We use Bourda Count with no ballot completion.  How does Bourda Count determine the winner in a tie?  We had a tie among two candidates and Bourda Count declared the one with fewer first place votes as the winner.  

[Team OpaVote]

Hello Kathleen,

I can see how that can be confusing. With a Borda Count, if there is a tie between candidates, the winners are chosen at random.

On OpaVote the results page will say something like "Candidates Alice and Bob were tied when choosing winner. Candidate Alice was chosen by breaking the tie randomly."

Best,
-- Damien
Team OpaVote
https://opavote.com

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM UTC, Kathleen Schluter <kschlu...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Patrick Murphy]

Kathleen --

If there is a tie, you could manually decide on a tie-breaker such as "The person with more first place votes is the winner".

Just because OpaVote randomly picks one of the people does not mean you can't override it. Of course, it would be good if the tie-breaking criteria was determined in advance of the voting. That way no one should complain if there is a tie and your criteria go into effect.

-- Patrick, a satisfied OpaVote user

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