<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:13px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5578">Using winning votes instead of margins doesn't warrant a new name. It's just a variant of ranked pairs. If I decided my favourite method was Schulze but with margins (it's not by the way), I would call it Schulze with margins. I wouldn't come up with a new name for it and present it as a new invention.<br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5418" style="display: block;"> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5417" style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5416" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5415" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5460" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5459" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5577"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Michael Ossipoff <email9648742@gmail.com><br> </font><br clear="none"></div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yiv7455658756"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5413"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5412" dir="ltr"><div class="yiv7455658756gmail_extra" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5526"><div class="yiv7455658756gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5527"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5540">And, by the way, you're calling MAM "Tideman's Ranked-Pairs method".<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5542">Incorrect. I don't advocate Tideman's Ranked-Pairs method.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5541">MAM is different from Tideman's Ranked-Pairs method in at least two important ways:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5544">1. MAM uses winning-votes (wv) as its measure of defeat-strength.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5576">2. MAM incorporates tiebreaking bylaws that give it desirable criterion-compliances even with a very small electtorate. ...something that can be important in polls.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5547">...especially my EM polls :^)<div class="yiv7455658756yqt5279129726" id="yiv7455658756yqtfd21587"><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv7455658756yqt5279129726" id="yiv7455658756yqtfd90131"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482332416790_5534"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div></div></body></html>