[EM] Who First Proposed Winning Votes?

[Markus Schulze]

Dear participants,

Mike Ossipoff proposed the MinMax(wv) tie-breaking strategy.
Now he claims that (by proposing this tie-breaking strategy)
he proposed wv methods in general.

However, I argue that it cannot be said that Mike proposed wv
methods in general because he didn't propose a general concept
that could also be used for other methods than MinMax. Mike
proposed his concept of "majority-rejected" candidates; with
this concept he proposed his "Generalized Majority Criterion"
(GMC); and he used this criterion to motivate the MinMax(wv)
tie-breaking strategy. However, GMC is satisfied by no other
wv tie-breaking strategy than MinMax(wv). Therefore, Mike
proposed only the MinMax(wv) tie-breaking strategy but not
wv methods in general.

Nevertheless, Mike continues to claim that he proposed a
general concept for wv methods. Therefore, I suggest that
everybody should browse through the archives of this
mailing list and decide whether he proposed only MinMax(wv)
or whether he proposed a general concept that can also be
used to motivate other wv methods than MinMax(wv).

Mike motivates wv e.g. here:

http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-March/000047.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-March/000075.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-March/000099.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-June/000470.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-June/000471.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-June/000495.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-June/000514.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-June/000547.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-July/000553.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-July/000569.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-July/000621.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-August/000673.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-September/000705.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-October/000745.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-October/000747.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-November/000826.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-November/000832.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-November/000844.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-November/000975.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-November/000976.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-November/000981.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1997-January/001273.html
http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/1997-February/001295.html

Markus Schulze