Dear SB, you wrote (2 Jan 2002): > Now, is Kemeny's Rule, as defined by my matrix for 3 candidate > tallies, the same as the Condorcet method which is described on > the EM website <http://electionmethods.org/>?
Nope! Example: A:B=52:48 A:C=53:47 A:D=49:51 B:C=56:44 B:D=45:55 C:D=54:46 My beat path method chooses the ranking ADBC. However, the Kemeny score of ADBC is only 311 while the Kemeny score of DABC is 313. Or as Forest Simmons would say: "The beat path method is not locally Kemeny optimal." Markus Schulze ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
