Edited sentence: 1860 presidential election have averted the american Civil War.Article by Alexander Tabarrok and Lee Spector Would using the Borda Count in the U.For a description of what might be a good way of doing things, see Defining Democracy.Saari shows that the Borda Count has relatively few paradoxes compared to other voting methods.The Symmetry and Complexity of Elections Article by mathematician Donald G.The de Borda Institute, Northern Ireland For a comparison of all the best known decision-making processes and electoral systems, see Beyond the Tyranny of the Majority.The matrix vote is described in The Politics of Consensus