# kaal:claim:6192998-026

**Claim.** The weighted Borda count consensus mechanism preserves the 2018 framework's security property that fifty one percent good faith participation ensures correct outcomes, while extending it to richer quality assessment.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- validator votes weighted by reputation stake
- a stake weighted majority of validators is honest

**Source quote.**

> This theorem establishes that the revised framework preserves the security property from Calcaterra, Kaal, and Andrei (2018) that 51% good-faith participation ensures correct outcomes, while extending it to richer quality assessment.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution* (2026), IV.B. Validator Consensus and Quality Ranking, page 29

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

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**Topics.** consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** borda-count, consensus, majority-honesty, security-properties, ranked-validation

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