Voters can indicate preference order. Count first eliminates lowest-ranked candidate and apportions that candidate's votes to remaining candidates. Count then eliminates lowest-ranked candidate and apportions that candidate's votes to remaining candidates, and so on, until only one candidate remains {instant-runoff voting} (IRV).
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