 Borda Count is an example of a scoring rule. A scoring rule is any method that calculates a score based on weights assigned to candidates according to where they fall in the voters’ rankings. That is, a scoring rule for \(n\) candidates is defined as follows: Fix a sequence of numbers \((s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_n)\) where \(s_k\ge s_{k+1}\) for all \(k=1,\ldots, n-1\). For each \(k\),  \(s_k \) is the score assigned to a alternatives ranked in position \(k\). Then, the score for alternative \(A\), denoted \(Score(A)\), is calculated as follows: