Markus said:
I agree with you. It is very problematic that RP and SSD are currently discussed as if RP could be used only with margins and SSD could be used only with winning-votes. (Actually, it seems to me that Adam Tarr really believes that.) I reply: RP is proposed only with margins. SSD is proposed only with winning votes. Cloneproof SSD and BeatpathWinner are only proposed for winning votes. Those latter 3 methods are defined in terms of winning votes, and to use them with any other measure of defeat would amount to using another method, a method not covered by those methods' definitions. Schulze's method isn't BeatpathWinner. Schulze's method allows ties in a beatpath, and so it can't be called BeatpathWinner, but is more of a Beat-&-Tie-Path-Winner method. And likewise, Schulze's method can't be called a winning votes method, since it uses tied votes too. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
