What does Choice Voting accomplish?
A. The actual casting of a vote is quite simple, though different than most voters are accustomed to. Instead of entering a number of “check marks,” electors simply enter the numbers 1, 2, 3, … etc. next to their preferred candidates, in order of choice. Indeed, they need only express as many preferences, or contingency choices, as they desire, i.e. from just one, up to as many as there are candidates running for election. a. Each elector’s single vote is used to help elect the candidate who is his or her first preference. If that candidate is so popular that he or she does not need all the first preference votes received, the surplus portions of each of those votes are transferred to non-excluded candidates, according to the next available preferences indicated; b. It can be seen that later preferences are contingency choices only. Because these contingency choices are used only if an earlier preference has a surplus above the winning threshold required for election, or has been exc
