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The town of Franklin is facing a severe budget shortage. The town administrator has proposed four options to balance the budget: increase property taxes (taxes), cut the school arts budget (arts), turn off half of the streetlights in the town (streetlights), reduce police patrols (police). Exactly one of the four choices will prevail, and the choice will be made by way of pairwise voting, with the majority determining the outcome on each vote. The preferences of the voters are summarized in the table below.
\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad  Voter Type \text { Voter Type }
 Type A  Type B  Type C  Type D  % of Electorate 14402818 First choice  taxes  streetlights  arts  police  Second choice  police  arts  taxes  arts  Third choice  streetlights  taxes  police  streetlights  Fourth choice  arts  police  streetlights  taxes \begin{array} { | l | l | l | l | l | } \hline & \text { Type A } & \text { Type B } & \text { Type C } & \text { Type D } \\\hline \text { \% of Electorate } & 14 & 40 & 28 & 18 \\\hline \text { First choice } & \text { taxes } & \text { streetlights } & \text { arts } & \text { police } \\\hline \text { Second choice } & \text { police } & \text { arts } & \text { taxes } & \text { arts } \\\hline \text { Third choice } & \text { streetlights } & \text { taxes } & \text { police } & \text { streetlights } \\\hline \text { Fourth choice } & \text { arts } & \text { police } & \text { streetlights } & \text { taxes } \\\hline\end{array}
-Refer to Table 22-7. If a Borda count is used, which option will win?

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