Hallo, > I suspect that a Condorcet method exists (e.g. any ISDA method) > which can only fail participation when the winner is not the > first Smith-set candidate ranked on the ballot. Woodall's mono-add-top criterion says that adding ballots, each with candidate A strictly preferred to every other candidate, must not change the winner from candidate A to some other candidate. To the best of my knowledge, there is no election method that has been proven to satisfy the Smith criterion and mono-add-top. Markus Schulze