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Originally Posted by ludacris
The necessary addendum to this is that the process would require that if no one gets >50% of the vote, the candidate(s) with the lowest vote totals would be eliminated and there would be a re-vote with the remaining candidates. This process would continue until someone reaches >50% of the vote.
Otherwise there could be a situation where there's 3 generally liberal candidates splitting the liberal vote and 1 conservative candidate that wins by default.
This process is generally solved by allowing back-up votes.
So if you let every liberal voter declare 1. 2. 3., and if their top choice isn't in the top 2, the vote gets punted to #2, re-calculate everything, punt to #3, etc.
No need to actually spend multiple election cycles on it, unless we wanted the theatre of it all.