Condorcet is Cute

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Donald,

you wrote (24 Feb 1999):
> The voter wants the full weight of his vote to be on
> his most preferred choice as long as his first choice
> is a contender.

This criterion sounds interesting. To be able to apply
your criterion to other election methods than successive
elimination methods, could you -please- define this
criterion in such a way that it doesn't presuppose that
a successive elimination method is used?

Markus Schulze