Dear Anthony,
you wrote (7 Nov 2003):
> As is SPI's method, which uses Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential
> Dropping, which was invented by Mike Ossipoff in 2001,
> some 207 years after the Marquis de Condorcet's death in 1794.
Actually, Cloneproof SSD was invented by me in 1997/1998:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/election-methods-list/message/673
When you re-read Mike Ossipoff's letter, you will see that he writes
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/election-methods-list/message/6376):
> SSD chooses the same winner as BeatpathWinner
> (aka "Schulze's method").
Markus Schulze