[EM] Who First Proposed Winning Votes?

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Mike,

you wrote (26 Feb 2005):
> But he [= David Gamble] didn't ask who first defined
> the Schulze method. He asked who first proposed the
> wv Condorcet methods. I'd proposed the wv Condorcet
> methods, and wv Condorcet methods were popular, long
> before you joined EM, and long before you defined
> Schulze's method and made it a wv method.

Well, you proposed MinMax(winning votes). But you didn't
propose a general concept that could also be used for
other methods than MinMax. Therefore, it cannot be said
that you proposed "winning votes" in general.

Markus Schulze