Schulze method

The Schulze method (/ˈʃʊltsə/), also known as the beatpath method, is a single winner ranked-choice voting rule developed by Markus Schulze. The Schulze method is a Condorcet completion method, which means it will elect a majority-preferred candidate if one exists. In other words, if most people rank A above B, A will defeat B (whenever this is possible). Schulze's method breaks cyclic ties by using indirect victories. The idea is that if Alice beats Bob, and Bob beats Charlie, then Alice (indirectly) beats Charlie; this kind of indirect win is called a "beatpath".

For proportional representation, a single transferable vote (STV) variant known as Schulze STV also exists. The Schulze method is used by several organizations including Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Pirate Party political parties and many others. It was also used by Wikimedia prior to their adoption of score voting.

Description of the method

A sample ballot asking voters to order candidates by preference

Schulze's method uses ranked ballots with equal ratings allowed. There are two common (equivalent) descriptions of Schulze's method.

Beatpath explanation

The idea behind Schulze's method is that if Alice defeats Bob, and Bob beats Charlie, then Alice "indirectly" defeats Charlie. These chained sequences of "beats" are called 'beatpaths'.

Every beatpath is assigned a particular strength. The strength of a single-step beatpath from Alice to Bob is just the number of voters who rank Alice over Bob. For a longer beatpath, consisting of multiple beats, a beatpath is as strong as its weakest link (i.e. the beat with the smallest number of winning votes).

We say Alice has a "beatpath-win" over Bob if her strongest beatpath to Bob is stronger than all of Bob's strongest beatpaths to Alice. The winner is the candidate who has a beatpath-win over every other candidate.

Markus Schulze proved that this definition of a beatpath-win is transitive: in other words, if Alice has a beatpath-win over Bob, and Bob has a beatpath-win over Charlie, Alice has a beatpath-win over Charlie.^[1]: §4.1 As a result, the Schulze method is a Condorcet method, providing a full extension of the majority rule to any set of ballots.

Iterative description

The Schulze winner can also be constructed iteratively, using a defeat-dropping method:

1. Draw a directed graph with all the candidates as nodes; label the edges with the number of votes supporting the winner.
2. If there is more than one candidate left:
   • Check if any candidates are tied (and if so, break the ties by random ballot).
   • Eliminate all candidates outside the majority-preferred set.
   • Delete the edge closest to being tied.

The winner is the only candidate left at the end of the procedure.

Example

In the following example 45 voters rank 5 candidates.

Number of voters	Order of preference
5	ACBED
5	ADECB
8	BEDAC
3	CABED
7	CAEBD
2	CBADE
7	DCEBA
8	EBADC

The pairwise preferences have to be computed first. For example, when comparing A and B pairwise, there are 5+5+3+7=20 voters who prefer A to B, and 8+2+7+8=25 voters who prefer B to A. So ${\displaystyle d[A,B]=20}$ and ${\displaystyle d[B,A]=25}$. The full set of pairwise preferences is:

Directed graph labeled with pairwise preferences d[*, *]

Matrix of pairwise preferences

	${\displaystyle d[*,A]}$	${\displaystyle d[*,B]}$	${\displaystyle d[*,C]}$	${\displaystyle d[*,D]}$	${\displaystyle d[*,E]}$
${\displaystyle d[A,*]}$		20	26	30	22
${\displaystyle d[B,*]}$	25		16	33	18
${\displaystyle d[C,*]}$	19	29		17	24
${\displaystyle d[D,*]}$	15	12	28		14
${\displaystyle d[E,*]}$	23	27	21	31

The cells for d[X, Y] have a light green background if d[X, Y] > d[Y, X], otherwise the background is light red. There is no undisputed winner by only looking at the pairwise differences here.

Now the strongest paths have to be identified. To help visualize the strongest paths, the set of pairwise preferences is depicted in the diagram on the right in the form of a directed graph. An arrow from the node representing a candidate X to the one representing a candidate Y is labelled with d[X, Y]. To avoid cluttering the diagram, an arrow has only been drawn from X to Y when d[X, Y] > d[Y, X] (i.e. the table cells with light green background), omitting the one in the opposite direction (the table cells with light red background).

One example of computing the strongest path strength is p[B, D] = 33: the strongest path from B to D is the direct path (B, D) which has strength 33. But when computing p[A, C], the strongest path from A to C is not the direct path (A, C) of strength 26, rather the strongest path is the indirect path (A, D, C) which has strength min(30, 28) = 28. The strength of a path is the strength of its weakest link.

For each pair of candidates X and Y, the following table shows the strongest path from candidate X to candidate Y in red, with the weakest link underlined.

Strongest paths

To From	A	B	C	D	E
A	—	A-(30)-D-(28)-C-(29)-B	A-(30)-D-(28)-C	A-(30)-D	A-(30)-D-(28)-C-(24)-E	A
B	B-(25)-A	—	B-(33)-D-(28)-C	B-(33)-D	B-(33)-D-(28)-C-(24)-E	B
C	C-(29)-B-(25)-A	C-(29)-B	—	C-(29)-B-(33)-D	C-(24)-E	C
D	D-(28)-C-(29)-B-(25)-A	D-(28)-C-(29)-B	D-(28)-C	—	D-(28)-C-(24)-E	D
E	E-(31)-D-(28)-C-(29)-B-(25)-A	E-(31)-D-(28)-C-(29)-B	E-(31)-D-(28)-C	E-(31)-D	—	E
	A	B	C	D	E	From To

Strengths of the strongest paths

	${\displaystyle p[*,A]}$	${\displaystyle p[*,B]}$	${\displaystyle p[*,C]}$	${\displaystyle p[*,D]}$	${\displaystyle p[*,E]}$
${\displaystyle p[A,*]}$		28	28	30	24
${\displaystyle p[B,*]}$	25		28	33	24
${\displaystyle p[C,*]}$	25	29		29	24
${\displaystyle p[D,*]}$	25	28	28		24
${\displaystyle p[E,*]}$	25	28	28	31

Now the output of the Schulze method can be determined. For example, when comparing A and B, since ${\displaystyle (28=)p[A,B]>p[B,A](=25)}$, for the Schulze method candidate A is better than candidate B. Another example is that ${\displaystyle (31=)p[E,D]>p[D,E](=24)}$, so candidate E is better than candidate D. Continuing in this way, the result is that the Schulze ranking is ${\displaystyle E>A>C>B>D}$, and E wins. In other words, E wins since ${\displaystyle p[E,X]\geq p[X,E]}$ for every other candidate X.

Implementation

The only difficult step in implementing the Schulze method is computing the strongest path strengths. However, this is a well-known problem in graph theory sometimes called the widest path problem. One simple way to compute the strengths, therefore, is a variant of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm. The following pseudocode illustrates the algorithm.

# Input: d[i,j], the number of voters who prefer candidate i to candidate j.
# Output: p[i,j], the strength of the strongest path from candidate i to candidate j.

for i from 1 to C
    for j from 1 to C
        if i ≠ j then
            if d[i,j] > d[j,i] then
                p[i,j] := d[i,j]
            else
                p[i,j] := 0

for i from 1 to C
    for j from 1 to C
        if i ≠ j then
            for k from 1 to C
                if i ≠ k and j ≠ k then
                    p[j,k] := max (p[j,k], min (p[j,i], p[i,k]))

This algorithm is efficient and has running time O(C³) where C is the number of candidates.

Ties and alternative implementations

When allowing users to have ties in their preferences, the outcome of the Schulze method naturally depends on how these ties are interpreted in defining d[*,*]. Two natural choices are that d[A, B] represents either the number of voters who strictly prefer A to B (A>B), or the margin of (voters with A>B) minus (voters with B>A). But no matter how the ds are defined, the Schulze ranking has no cycles, and assuming the ds are unique it has no ties.^[2]

Although ties in the Schulze ranking are unlikely, they are possible. Schulze's original paper recommended breaking ties by random ballot.^[2]

There is another alternative way to demonstrate the winner of the Schulze method. This method is equivalent to the others described here, but the presentation is optimized for the significance of steps being visually apparent as a human goes through it, not for computation.

1. Make the results table, called the "matrix of pairwise preferences", such as used above in the example. Then, every positive number is a pairwise win for the candidate on that row (and marked green), ties are zeroes, and losses are negative (marked red). Order the candidates by how long they last in elimination.
2. If there is a candidate with no red on their line, they win.
3. Otherwise, draw a square box around the Schwartz set in the upper left corner. It can be described as the minimal "winner's circle" of candidates who do not lose to anyone outside the circle. Note that to the right of the box there is no red, which means it is a winner's circle, and note that within the box there is no reordering possible that would produce a smaller winner's circle.
4. Cut away every part of the table outside the box.
5. If there is still no candidate with no red on their line, something needs to be compromised on; every candidate lost some race, and the loss we tolerate the best is the one where the loser obtained the most votes. So, take the red cell with the highest number (if going by margins, the least negative), make it green—or any color other than red—and go back step 2.

Here is a margins table made from the above example. Note the change of order used for demonstration purposes.

Initial results table

	E	A	C	B	D
E		1	−3	9	17
A	−1		7	−5	15
C	3	−7		13	−11
B	−9	5	−13		21
D	−17	−15	11	−21

The first drop (A's loss to E by 1 vote) does not help shrink the Schwartz set.

First drop

	E	A	C	B	D
E		1	−3	9	17
A	−1		7	−5	15
C	3	−7		13	−11
B	−9	5	−13		21
D	−17	−15	11	−21

So we get straight to the second drop (E's loss to C by 3 votes), and that shows us the winner, E, with its clear row.

Second drop, final

	E	A	C	B	D
E		1	−3	9	17
A	−1		7	−5	15
C	3	−7		13	−11
B	−9	5	−13		21
D	−17	−15	11	−21

This method can also be used to calculate a result, if the table is remade in such a way that one can conveniently and reliably rearrange the order of the candidates on both the row and the column, with the same order used on both at all times.

Satisfied and failed criteria

Satisfied criteria

The Schulze method satisfies the following criteria:

• Monotonicity criterion^[3]: §4.5
• Majority criterion
• Majority loser criterion
• Condorcet criterion
• Condorcet loser criterion
• Smith criterion^[3]: §4.7
• Independence of Smith-dominated alternatives^[3]: §4.7
• Mutual majority criterion
• Independence of clones^[3]: §4.6
• Reversal symmetry^[3]: §4.4
• Mono-append^[4]
• Mono-add-plump^[4]
• Resolvability criterion^[3]: §4.2
• Polynomial runtime^{[3]: §2.3"}
• prudence^{[3]: §4.9"}
• MinMax sets^{[3]: §4.8"}
• Woodall's plurality criterion if winning votes are used for d[X,Y]
• Symmetric-completion^[4] if margins are used for d[X,Y]

Failed criteria

Since the Schulze method satisfies the Condorcet criterion, it automatically fails the following criteria:

• Participation^[2]: §3.4
• Consistency
• Invulnerability to burying
• Later-no-harm

Likewise, since the Schulze method is not a dictatorship and is a ranked voting system (not rated), Arrow's Theorem implies it fails independence of irrelevant alternatives, meaning it can be vulnerable to the spoiler effect in some rare circumstances. The Schulze method also fails Peyton Young's criterion of Local Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives.

Comparison table

The following table compares the Schulze method with other single-winner election methods:

Comparison of single-winner voting systems

Criterion Method	Majority winner	Majority loser	Mutual majority	Condorcet winner[Tn 1]	Condorcet loser	Smith[Tn 1]	Smith-IIA[Tn 1]	IIA/LIIA[Tn 1]	Clone­proof	Mono­tone	Participation	Later-no-harm[Tn 1]	Later-no-help[Tn 1]	No favorite betrayal[Tn 1]	Ballot type
First-past-the-post voting	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Single mark
Anti-plurality	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Single mark
Two round system	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Single mark
Instant-runoff	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Ran­king
Coombs	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Ran­king
Nanson	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Ran­king
Baldwin	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Ran­king
Tideman alternative	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Ran­king
Minimax	Yes	No	No	Yes[Tn 2]	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No[Tn 2]	No	No	Ran­king
Copeland	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Ran­king
Black	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Ran­king
Kemeny–Young	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	LIIA Only	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Ran­king
Ranked pairs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	LIIA Only	Yes	Yes	No[Tn 3]	No	No	No	Ran­king
Schulze	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No[Tn 3]	No	No	No	Ran­king
Borda	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Ran­king
Bucklin	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Ran­king
Approval	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes[Tn 4]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Appr­ovals
Majority Judgement	No	No[Tn 5]	No[Tn 6]	No	No	No	No	Yes[Tn 4]	Yes	Yes	No[Tn 3]	No	Yes	Yes	Scores
Score	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes[Tn 4]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Scores
STAR	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Scores
Random ballot[Tn 7]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single mark
Sortition[Tn 8]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	None
Table Notes	Condorcet's criterion is incompatible with the consistency, participation, later-no-harm, later-no-help, and sincere favorite criteria. A variant of Minimax that counts only pairwise opposition, not opposition minus support, fails the Condorcet criterion and meets later-no-harm. In Highest median, Ranked Pairs, and Schulze voting, there is always a regret-free, semi-honest ballot for any voter, holding all other ballots constant and assuming they know enough about how others will vote. Under such circumstances, there is always at least one way for a voter to participate without grading any less-preferred candidate above any more-preferred one. Approval voting, score voting, and majority judgment satisfy IIA if it is assumed that voters rate candidates independently using their own absolute scale. For this to hold, in some elections, some voters must use less than their full voting power despite having meaningful preferences among viable candidates. Majority Judgment may elect a candidate uniquely least-preferred by over half of voters, but it never elects the candidate uniquely bottom-rated by over half of voters. Majority Judgment fails the mutual majority criterion, but satisfies the criterion if the majority ranks the mutually favored set above a given absolute grade and all others below that grade. A randomly chosen ballot determines winner. This and closely related methods are of mathematical interest and included here to demonstrate that even unreasonable methods can pass voting method criteria. Where a winner is randomly chosen from the candidates, sortition is included to demonstrate that even non-voting methods can pass some criteria.

Difference from ranked pairs

Ranked pairs is another Condorcet method which is very similar to Schulze's rule, and typically produces the same outcome. There are slight differences, however. The main difference between the beatpath method and ranked pairs is that Schulze retains behavior closer to minimax. Say that the minimax score of a set X of candidates is the strength of the strongest pairwise win of a candidate A ∉ X against a candidate B ∈ X. Then the Schulze method, but not ranked pairs, guarantees the winner is always a candidate of the set with minimum minimax score.^[2]: §4.8 This is the sense in which the Schulze method minimizes the largest majority that has to be reversed when determining the winner.

On the other hand, Ranked Pairs minimizes the largest majority that has to be reversed to determine the order of finish.^[5] In other words, when Ranked Pairs and the Schulze method produce different orders of finish, for the majorities on which the two orders of finish disagree, the Schulze order reverses a larger majority than the Ranked Pairs order.

History

The Schulze method was developed by Markus Schulze in 1997. It was first discussed in public mailing lists in 1997–1998^[6] and in 2000.^[7] In 2011, Schulze published the method in the academic journal Social Choice and Welfare.^[2]

Usage

Sample ballot for Wikimedia's Board of Trustees elections

Government

The Schulze method is used by the city of Silla, Spain for all referendums.^{[8][9][10][11]} It is also used by the cities of Turin and San Donà di Piave in Italy and by the London Borough of Southwark through their use of the WeGovNow platform, which in turn uses the LiquidFeedback decision tool.^[12][13]

Political parties

Schulze was adopted by the Pirate Party of Sweden (2009),^[14] and the Pirate Party of Germany (2010).^[15] The Boise, Idaho chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in February chose this method for their first special election held in March 2018.^[16]

• Five Star Movement of Campobasso,^[17] Fondi,^[18] Monte Compatri,^[19] Montemurlo,^[20] Pescara,^[21] and San Cesareo^[22]
• Pirate Parties of Australia,^[23] Austria,^[24] Belgium,^[25] Brazil, Germany,^[15] Iceland,^[26] Italy,^[27] the Netherlands,^[28] Sweden,^[14] Switzerland,^[29] and the United States^[30]
• SustainableUnion^[31]
• Volt Europe^[32]

Student government and associations

• AEGEE – European Students' Forum^[33]
• Club der Ehemaligen der Deutschen SchülerAkademien e. V.^[34]
• Associated Student Government at École normale supérieure de Paris^[35]
• Flemish Society of Engineering Students Leuven^[36]
• Graduate Student Organization at the State University of New York: Computer Science (GSOCS)^[37]
• Hillegass Parker House^[38]
• Kingman Hall^[39]
• Associated Students of Minerva Schools at KGI^[40]
• Associated Student Government at Northwestern University^[41]
• Associated Student Government at University of Freiburg^[42]
• Associated Student Government at the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Kaiserslautern^[43]

Organizations

It is used by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, by the Association for Computing Machinery, and by USENIX^{[citation needed]} through their use of the HotCRP decision tool.^[jargon]

Organizations which currently use the Schulze method include:

• Annodex Association^[44]
• Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte [de] (BVKJ)^[45]
• BoardGameGeek^[46]
• Cloud Foundry Foundation^[47]
• County Highpointers^[48]
• Dapr^[49]
• Debian^[50]
• EuroBillTracker
• European Democratic Education Community (EUDEC)^[51]
• FFmpeg^[52]
• Free Geek^[53]
• Free Hardware Foundation of Italy
• Gentoo Foundation^[54]
• GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)^[55]
• Haskell^[56]
• Homebrew^[57]
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) (until 2023)^[58]
• Kanawha Valley Scrabble Club^[59]
• KDE e.V.^[60]
• Knight Foundation^[61]
• Kubernetes^[62]
• Kumoricon^[63]
• League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA)^[64]
• LiquidFeedback^[65]
• Madisonium^[66]
• Metalab^[67]
• MTV^[68]
• Neo^[69]
• Noisebridge^[70]
• OpenEmbedded^[71]
• Open Neural Network Exchange^[72]
• OpenStack^[73]
• OpenSwitch^[74]
• RLLMUK^[75]
• Squeak^[76]
• Students for Free Culture^[77]
• Sugar Labs^[78]
• Sverok^[79]
• TopCoder^[80]
• Ubuntu^[81]
• Vidya Gaem Awards^[82]
• Wikimedia (2008)^[83]
• Wikipedia in French,^[84] Hebrew,^{[85][circular reference][86]} Hungarian,^[87] Russian,^[88] and Persian.^[89]

Notes

1. Markus Schulze, "A new monotonic, clone-independent, reversal symmetric, and Condorcet-consistent single-winner election method", Social Choice and Welfare, volume 36, number 2, page 267–303, 2011. Preliminary version in Voting Matters, 17:9-19, 2003.
2. Markus Schulze, "A new monotonic, clone-independent, reversal symmetric, and condorcet-consistent single-winner election method", Social Choice and Welfare, volume 36, number 2, page 267–303, 2011. Preliminary version in Voting Matters, 17:9-19, 2003.
3. Markus Schulze, "A new monotonic, clone-independent, reversal symmetric, and condorcet-consistent single-winner election method", Social Choice and Welfare, volume 36, number 2, page 267–303, 2011. Preliminary version in Voting Matters, 17:9-19, 2003.
4. Douglas R. Woodall, Properties of Preferential Election Rules, Voting Matters, issue 3, pages 8–15, December 1994
5. Tideman, T. Nicolaus, "Independence of clones as a criterion for voting rules", Social Choice and Welfare vol 4 #3 (1987), pp. 185–206.
6. See:
   • Markus Schulze, Condorect sub-cycle rule, October 1997
   • Mike Ossipoff, Party List P.S., July 1998
   • Markus Schulze, Tiebreakers, Subcycle Rules, August 1998
   • Markus Schulze, Maybe Schulze is decisive, August 1998
   • Norman Petry, Schulze Method - Simpler Definition, September 1998
   • Markus Schulze, Schulze Method, November 1998
7. See:
   • Anthony Towns, Disambiguation of 4.1.5, November 2000
   • Norman Petry, Constitutional voting, definition of cumulative preference, December 2000
8. Hortanoticias, Redacción (2016-02-23). "Al voltant de 2.000 participants en dos dies en la primera enquesta popular de Silla que decidirà sobre espectacles taurins". Hortanoticias.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-24. S'utilitzarà el sistema de recompte Schulze perquè és un sistema de vot preferencial que compleix amb el criteri de Condorcet, la qual cosa permet identificar l'opció que, comparada amb qualsevol de les altres, és preferida per la majoria absoluta dels votants [The Schulze counting system will be used because it is a preferential voting system that complies with the Condorcet criterion, which makes it possible to identify the option that, compared to any other option, is preferred by the absolute majority of voters]
9. "22-26 de febrer: La primera Enquesta Popular de la història de Silla - Notícies - Ajuntament de Silla". Silla Town Council (in Catalan). 2016-02-23. Archived from the original on 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2024-12-13. S'utilitzarà el sistema de recompte Schulze perquè és un sistema de vot preferencial que compleix amb el criteri de Condorcet, la qual cosa permet identificar l'opció que, comparada amb qualsevol de les altres, és preferida per la majoria absoluta dels votants. [The Schulze counting system will be used because it is a preferential voting system that complies with the Condorcet criterion, which makes it possible to identify the option that, compared to any of the others, is preferred by the absolute majority of voters.]
10. "UN AÑO DE PROFUNDIZACIÓN DEMOCRÁTICA EN SILLA | Silla en Democracia". Silla in Democracy (in Spanish). 2017-03-22. Archived from the original on 2017-03-22. Retrieved 2024-12-13. Ha sido un rotundo éxito organizativo que repetiremos y que se gestó desde meses antes, desarrollando un know-how propio y siendo pioneros en la aplicación del sistema de recuento Condorcet-Schulze para las preguntas con respuesta de ordenación preferencial. Logramos un récord impresionante de participación que pulverizó todas las marcas existentes en procesos similares en municipios españoles (la media usual ronda el 10% de participación mientras que en Silla alcanzamos el 27%). [It has been a resounding organizational success that we will repeat, developed over months with our own know-how, and pioneering the application of the Condorcet-Schulze counting system for questions with preferential ranking responses. We achieved an impressive participation record that shattered all existing benchmarks in similar processes in Spanish municipalities (the usual average is around 10% participation, while in Silla, we reached 27%).]
11. Silla, ~ El Cresol de (2016-05-26). "Un any d'aprofundiment democràtic a Silla". El Cresol de Silla (in Catalan). Retrieved 2022-09-24.
12. "LiquidFeedback in London, Turin and San Donà di Piave | Interaktive Demokratie". interaktive-demokratie.org. Retrieved 2024-12-13. WeGovNow! … is an OpenStreetMap based E-Government solution to be validated and evaluated in London Southwark (UK), Turin (Italy) and San Donà di Piave (Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy)
13. "Algorithms for Good (The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 7)". liquid-democracy-journal.org. Retrieved 2024-12-13. To determine the winner from a set of alternatives, LiquidFeedback implements Clone-Proof Schwartz Sequential Dropping, known as the Schulze Method.
14. See:
    • "Inför primärvalen" [Before the primary elections] (in Swedish). 8 October 2009. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012.
    • "Dags att kandidera till riksdagen" [Time to run for the Riksdag] (in Swedish). 17 October 2009. Archived from the original on 23 July 2014.
    • "Råresultat primärvalet" [The raw result of the primary election] (in Swedish). 19 January 2010. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012.
15. 11 of the 16 regional sections and the federal section of the Pirate Party of Germany are using LiquidFeedback for unbinding internal opinion polls. In 2010/2011, the Pirate Parties of Neukölln (link), Mitte (link), Steglitz-Zehlendorf (link), Lichtenberg (link), and Tempelhof-Schöneberg (link) adopted the Schulze method for its primaries. Furthermore, the Pirate Party of Berlin (in 2011) (link) and the Pirate Party of Regensburg (in 2012) (link) adopted this method for their primaries.
16. Chumich, Andrew. "DSA Special Election". Retrieved 2018-02-25.
17. Campobasso. Comunali, scattano le primarie a 5 Stelle, February 2014
18. Macaro, Mirko (2015-03-03). "Fondi, il punto sui candidati a sindaco. Certezze, novità e colpi di scena". h24 notizie - portale indipendente di news dalla provincia (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-09-24.
19. article 25(5) of the bylaws, October 2013
20. "MoVimento 5 Stelle - Montemurlo: 2° Step Comunarie di Montemurlo". November 2013. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
21. article 12 of the bylaws, January 2015
22. Ridefinizione della lista di San Cesareo con Metodo Schulze, February 2014
23. "National Congress 2011 Results – Pirate Party Australia". pirateparty.org.au. 18 November 2011. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
24. §6(10) of the bylaws
25. Article III.3.4 of the Statutory Rules (french, dutch)
26. Píratar (2013-10-23). "Schulze aðferðin". Píratar (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2022-09-24.
27. Rules adopted on 18 December 2011
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External links

• The Schulze Method of Voting by Markus Schulze
• The Schulze Method by Hubert Bray
• Spieltheorie (in German) by Bernhard Nebel
• Accurate Democracy by Rob Loring
• Christoph Börgers (2009), Mathematics of Social Choice: Voting, Compensation, and Division, SIAM, ISBN 0-89871-695-0
• Nicolaus Tideman (2006), Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice, Burlington: Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-4717-X
• preftools by the Public Software Group
• Arizonans for Condorcet Ranked Voting
• Condorcet PHP Command line application and PHP library, supporting multiple Condorcet methods, including Schulze.
• Implementation in Java
• Implementation in Ruby
• Implementation in Python 2
• Implementation in Python 3