May 4 - Jean Charles de Borda quotes

May 4 Physics Quote of the Day. (Sorry again for all that noise in the background. I had to cut half of my video because there were cars starting, etc.)

Jean-Charles de Borda (born May 4, 1733)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Charles_de_Borda

"It is a generally held opinion, that in an election, the plurality of voices always indicates the desires of the electors; in other words, that the candidate who has obtained the plurality is necessarily the one that the electors prefer to his opponents. But I will show that this opinion, which is true if the election is held between only two subjects, can infer an error in all other cases."

"My voting system is designed for honest people."

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