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> since there was no cycle, any Condorcet compliant work have worked identically. if it had a cycle, since there were only three candidate tickets, Schulze, Tideman, and MinMax would still have performed identically.<br />
</p><p>oops. i realize that there were 4 candidate tickets and then 6 pairwise elections.</p><p> </p><p>still doesn't change that, with a Condorcet winner, it made no difference. if there was a 4-way cycle, perhaps Schulze would choose a different winner than the other
methods.</p><p> </p><p>also was going to mention that i had attended Northwestern during the Reagan years. was a PhD student but left ABD.</p><p> </p><p>r b-j</p><p> </p>