[EM] Is "Inverse Nanson" better than standard Nanson?

Markus Schulze schulze at sol.physik.tu-berlin.de
Mon Jul 2 13:37:35 PDT 2001


Dear Michael,

you wrote (1 July 2001):
> Nanson's method -- which calculates the Borda score for each candidate,
> drops the lowest, then recalculates -- can be proven to always find the
> Condorcet winner if one exist. It is one of few non-Condorcet methods
> with this property.

What is a "Condorcet method" due to your use of this term?

Markus Schulze



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