[EM] simple definition of Schulze method?

[Árpád Magosányi]

Hi!

I am planning to initialize a referenda in my country to change our voting
system.
I want to propose Condorcet, and want to draft the referenda question in a
way which makes no room for the legistrator to fall back to some ancient
method when there is no Condorcet winner. I prefer Schulze method.

The problem is that our constitution and its interpretation leaves very
narrow place to draft a referenda question.
The question should be clear, and it should be simple as well. The criteria
so far executed by our Constitutional Court are the following:

There should be one question. - I need to state multiple criteria, and some
may interpret them as several questions. I can reason that the question is
one, which refers to a set of criteria which would be meaningless without
each other.

There should be no specialized word. - "The average voter should be able to
understand." So "Do you agree to vote our parliament members with a
cloneproof Condorcet method which always produces a winner?" won't work.

There should be no explanations of terms and ideas in the question. - "The
average voter should be able to understand." Constitutional Court ruled that
ideas and terms which need explanations are beyond that.

It should be easily understandable. - "The average voter should be able to
understand." Well, our whole constitution is built on the assumption that
citizens are dumb. There might be some place here as I can point to the
current text of voting law which contains D'Hont method as a small piece of
the description of our voting system, and a small set of criteria is much
simpler than that.

It should be definitive. - "Would you like a voting system which reflects
the different views of voters better, and the winnig strategy for candidates
is to cooperate" would be rejected because there are so many interpretation
of it.

I think the right way would be draft the question with simple words through
criteria which should be satisfied.
Can you help me by proposing such simple definitions of key criteria?
Specifically I could not find a criteria which would not contain "beat-path"
and be specific to Schulze.

I am sorry to ask the impossible, but we are in a dire need here.
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