Coombs' method

Coombs' method (or the Coombs rule) is a ranked voting system created by Clyde Coombs used for single-winner elections. Similarly to instant-runoff voting, it uses candidate elimination and redistribution of votes cast for that candidate until one candidate has a majority of votes.

Links

 * 1996
 * http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-March/thread.html#65497 - "'Spokane' method"
 * 2005
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20050909092356/http://condorcet.org/emr/methods.shtml#Coombs - 2005 archive of Condorcet.org glossary of terminology
 * 2019
 * https://imgur.com/gallery/SLTHgCO - Diagram of Coombs' and center squeeze
 * 2020
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/js1qlt/wouldnt_a_rcv_method_where_you_eliminated_the/