The Schulze Method of Voting
We propose a new single winner election method "Schulze method" and prove that it satisfies many academic criteria (e.g. monotonicity, reversal symmetry, resolvability, independence of clones, Condorcet criterion, k consistency, polynomial runtime) We then generalize this method to proportional representation by the single transferable vote "Schulze STV" and to methods to calculate a proportional ranking "Schulze proportional ranking" Furthermore, we propose a generalization of the Condorcet criterion to multi winner elections. This paper contains a large number of examples to illustrate the proposed methods.
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