Earlier today (3/1), Bill Kahn wrote: > I think the most popular and accepted version of IRV is where the choice with > the least votes is dropped after the first talley and the vote is > recalculated with the second choice of those voting for the dropped > candidate. You could go several rounds until you had a clear mandate for one > candidate, or in the case of a partisan primary, until you had a mandated > candidate from each party on the ballot ===== [KB] That IS Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), although by "clear mandate", Mr. Kahn should have written a majority. (A technical point: Any other version is a different election method.)
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