Ranked Choice Including Pairwise Elimination: Difference between revisions
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Also to avoid spoiled ballots, if a voter marks more than one ranking level for the same candidate, only the highest-marked ranking level is used during counting. |
Also to avoid spoiled ballots, if a voter marks more than one ranking level for the same candidate, only the highest-marked ranking level is used during counting. |
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The choice of how to handle a ballot on which a voter does not mark any ovals for a candidate depends on how write-in candidates are handled. If write-in candidates are not allowed, an unmarked candidate can be ranked at the ranking level ''below'' the lowest ranking level shown on the ballot. If write-in candidates are allowed, an unmarked candidate can be ranked ''at'' the lowest ranking level shown on the ballot, and that level also would be used for a write-in candidate whose name does not appear on that ballot. |
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The ranking level below the lowest ranking level is reserved for write-in candidates whose names do not appear on the ballot being counted. |
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== Tie breaker == |
== Tie breaker == |
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