Hallo, actually, the discussion surrounding supermajorities in Condorcet goes back to 2000. See e.g.: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2000/11/msg00156.html Between 2000 and 2002, this issue was discussed off-list resp. at the Debian-EM Joint Committee mailing list. See also section 7 of my paper: http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf Markus Schulze