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

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

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,