[Election-Methods] USING Condorcet

[Markus Schulze]

Dear James Gilmour,

 > It is interesting to see the large numbers of ballots
 > with many equal rankings, often but not always, one
 > candidate versus the rest. And yet the candidates
 > within the equal rankings are given in specific
 > orders. If "no preference" among them, what does the
 > order signify in terms of the voting system (or in
 > the voter's mind)?

I guess that you are talking about these ballots:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Votes/en

Whenever someone restarted Boardvote, the order of
the candidates on his ballot was reshuffled. On the
above page, the order of the candidates within the
equal rankings is just this order on the ballot.

Markus Schulze