[EM] 'Shulze (Votes For)' definition?

[Kevin Venzke]

Hi Chris,

--- En date de : Jeu 13.8.09, Chris Benham <cbenhamau at yahoo.com.au> a écrit :
> I am a little bit confused as to the
> exact meaning of the phrase "the absolute number ..of
> 
> votes for candidate E".
>  
> Does "the number of votes for
> E" mean 'the number of ballots on which E is ranked
> above
> at least one other candidate'?
>  
> Or does it mean something that can be
> read purely from the pairwise matrix?

It's the latter, read from the matrix. "Absolute number" is in contrast to
using margin or ratio.

Kevin Venzke