Ranked-choice voting, they call it, and the idea is to rank the candidates. Then, the bottom vote-getter is eliminated and all the ballots case for him or her are counted again, with the second pick on that ballot then being counted. And, you keep tossing out the bottom vote-getter until one of the candidates secures 50 percent of the vote.
I've gone back-and-forth on whether I favor ranked-choice voting. But now, with all the efforts to avoid charges of ballot fraud, I think it not the time for this type of an election. Keep things as simple so there will not be as great of chance of voter fraud, or even the accusation of voter fraud.
You would be counting all the ballots once, then separating out all the ballots for the last-place finisher so you could move all his or her votes to someone else. And, you would be repeating that process until someone secured 50 percent of the vote. Computers would have to do this. Expecting hand-counting to be reliable would be a little much. So, whenever it became that you needed a hand-count because of a close election, it would especially be a mess.
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