Dear Jadima Laika, thank you for your interest in my Condorcet method. I am promoting this method already since 1997. You can find some old descriptions of this method e.g. here:
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/1998-July/001856.html http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/1998-August/001958.html http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/1998-August/002044.html http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/1998-September/002055.html http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/1998-November/002771.html Already since 1998, this method is described as "Schulze" on Blake Cretney's and Rob LeGrand's websites: http://www.condorcet.org/emr/methods.shtml http://cec.wustl.edu/~rhl1/rbvote/desc.html In 1999, my proposals were already well known among Condorcet advocates. When the Debian project began discussing its methods for internal referendums and elections in 2000, it also discussed my proposals. See e.g. here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2000/11/msg00121.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2000/12/msg00045.html This discussion resulted in the adoption of the Schulze method in a referendum with 144 against 16 votes in June 2003. About the Wikipedia articles: The Wikipedia articles only claim that the Debian project uses the Schulze method; this claim is certainly true. The Wikipedia articles don't claim that I co-authored Debian's constitution. Markus Schulze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
