[EM] Who First Proposed Winning Votes?

[Markus Schulze]

Dear participants,

I wrote to Mike Ossipoff (19 March 2005):
> I can only comment on how you motivated wv at the EM
> mailing list. Here, you used GMC from the very beginning.
> And GMC was one of your main arguments for using wv.

Mike Ossipoff wrote to me (20 March 2005):
> I introduced and proposed wv in 1994. I defined GMC,
> first mentioned GMC, in 1996 or 1997.

I wrote to Mike Ossipoff (20 March 2005):
> Well, the EM mailing list has been created in 1996.
> Therefore, it is not possible that you introduced
> and proposed wv in 1994 to this mailing list.

Mike Ossipoff wrote to me (21 March 2005):
> You joined EM perhaps around 1996, but (big surprise
> for you) EM had been in existence for years before you
> joined. I introduced and proposed wv on EM in 1994.

Could someone please confirm/refute Mike Ossipoff's
claim that the EM mailing list already existed in 1994
and that Mike "introduced and proposed wv on EM in 1994"?

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Rob Lanphier writes:
http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Election-methods_mailing_list
> Electorama.com archive -- This is the official archive
> for this list, which has all postings back to the
> starting of the list in 1996.

Thus, when I interpret Rob correctly then EM started in 1996.

Markus Schulze