[wnoise]

I'm objecting to the statement that they're equivalent if you forbid ties.

This is only true when you have as many candidates as score slots.

[clolege]

> It's only equivalent if you pick an integer scale [K, K+N] with N candidates, K arbitrary.

or [0, K], K arbitrary.

because you can give multiple candidates the same amount of support in Borda if it is 0.