Dear Chris Benham, you wrote (14 Aug 2009):
> What I don't understand is the difference between > "winning votes" (which I'm familiar with) and > "votes for", as they are both defined on page 13 > of Markus Schulze's paper, pasted below. > > http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf Kevin Venzke and Kristofer Munsterhjelm are correct. What I call "votes for" in my paper is usually called "pairwise opposition" in this mailing list. The difference is described at the end of section 2.2.2: > So the only difference between the Schulze method > with "winning votes" and the Schulze method with > "votes for" (resp. between the Schulze method with > "losing votes" and the Schulze method with "votes > against") is that the condition "N[c(i),c(i+1)] > > N[c(i+1),c(i)] for all i = 1,...,(n-1)" is dropped. Markus Schulze ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info