Why SSD is a Cycle Condorcet method

SSD is a Cycle Condorcet method if it can be shown that any defeat among members of the current Schwartz set (I'll just call it the Schwartz set) is in a cycle. That's the same as saying that no member of the Schwartz set has an unreturned beatpath to him, meaning that if A has a beatpath to B,

Criterion compliance demonstrations

This is the letter that I said I'd send about demonstrations of compliances with the defensive strategy criteria. *** First let me point out that SD, DCD, & Tideman all have one thing in common, any defeat that they drop is the weakest defeat in some cycle. When DCD drops the weakest defeat in

Defensive strategy criteria for voting systems

Hi-- This is the letter that I said I'd send, about the defensive strategy criteria for voting systems. A majority has the power to gain any outcome that its members all want. They can gain the election of any candidate they want to, or gain the non-election of any candidate they want to. But i