[EM] IRV's "majority winner". What if we let the people choose?

[James Green-Armytage]

Curt Siffert <siffert at museworld.com> writes:
>Honestly, though, I don't believe the 3/49/48 scenario would ever 
>happen in a political election.  For a candidate to have gathered 
>enough support to even compete in an election, he or she would have to 
>have a significant amount of first-place supporters.

Well, actually what I think is more unlikely about that classic example is
that anyone with only 3% of first choice votes would be a totally
unanimous choice for second choice. In general, it seems unlikely for any
candidate to be either the first or second choice of every single voter. 

James