ELi5: Ranked Choice Voting

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I just saw a post on Alaska and ranked choice voting. I thought I understood it. Now I don’t.
Help please.

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You number every candidate in order of preference, 1 for your favourite then 2,3,4…

When the vote is counted all the candidates receive their number 1’s (first preference). The candidate with the lowest amount of votes is removed and their votes are redistributed to the candidate who is number 2 (second preference). Repeat until you have 2 candidates and the one with the most votes is the winner.

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