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'''Minet Ranked-Choice Voting''' ('''MRCV''') is a variation of [[Baldwin's method]] proposed by Roy A. Minet, who claims it to be the "best possible ordinal voting method".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://royminet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OrdinalVotingAnalysis.pdf|title=A Comprehensive, Conclusive Analysis Of Ordinal Voting Methods|last=Minet|first=Roy A.|date=2018|website=RoyMinet.Org|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://royminet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Voting4BetterDecisions.pdf|title=Voting for Better Decisions|last=Minet|first=Roy A.|date=2016|website=RoyMinet.Org|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

== Definition ==
Like Baldwin's method, MRCV uses a [[ranked ballot]] (with incomplete ballots allowed), and proceeds in a series of rounds, eliminating the candidate with the least number of points in each round until one gets a majority of first-preference votes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Baldwin|first=J. M.|date=1926|title=The technique of the Nanson preferential majority system of election|url=https://archive.org/details/proceedingsroyaxxxvroyaa/page/42|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria|volume=39|pages=42–52|via=}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Nanson|first=E. J.|date=1882|title=Methods of election|url=https://archive.org/details/transactionsproc1719roya/page/197|journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria|volume=19|pages=197–240|via=}}</ref>{{Rp|217}}

However, in MRCV, voters are limited to only expressing their top three rankings, they cannot express indifference (equal rankings are not allowed), and the points are assigned to rankings non-linearly, with each ranking assumed to have half the cardinal utility of the previous (somewhat similar to the [[W:Borda count#Dowdall%20system%20(Nauru)|Dowdall system]]):
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== See also ==

* [[Best/Alternate/Worst Voting]]
* [[Approve/Approve/Disapprove Voting]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Preferential voting methods]]
[[Category:Single-winner voting methods]]