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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is a DC council example:  The Ward 2 primary in 2020.  The results are below.  If after the first round there was RCV, then the candidate with the least number of votes would be dropped (in this case Daniel Hernandez) and his votes would be allocated to the candidates that the people who listed him as first choice listed as their second choice. Then this would be run again, with the votes to Evans being reallocated.  This could at some point push a candidate up- if all the votes from the bottom four candidates listed Patrick Kennedy as their second choice then he would have moved ahead of Pinto.  This is done until one of the candidates has more than 50% of the votes.  You can see from the numbers below that this would be very easy to change the outcome, especially if two of the candidates were similar and drew similar types of supporters.  So if Kennedy and Grossman had similar positions then maybe most of Grossman's supporters would have preferred Kennedy to Pinto so their votes would be reallocated to him, potentially pushing him past 50%.

Brooke Pinto 	  28.4% 	3,142

Patrick Kennedy	  25.0% 	2,763

Jordan Grossman	  21.5% 	2,385

Kishan Putta	  9.9% 	1,100

John Fanning	  6.3% 	695

Yilin Zhang	  4.3% 	473

Jack Evans	  3.4% 	376

Daniel Hernandez	  1.2% 	129[/quote]

This is a great example. I doubt Pinto would have won under RCV.[/quote]

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