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Pinckney on Nov 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Voting is a Sham Mathematically Speaking

Thanks. After looking into this, wikipedia provides a long list of things that can be referred to as "preferential voting."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting

However, AFAIK, IRV is the system which most closely fits what gradstudent described.

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