Re: Maine RCV

robert bristow-johnson via Election-Methods <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:35:57 -0400 (EDT)

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> On 04/30/2026 12:38 PM EDT Richard via Election-Methods <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 4/30/26 02:59, Etjon Basha via Election-Methods wrote:
>  > This whole situation led me to think of how might someone dead-set on
>  > IRV get around this, which would obviously be through runoff voting.
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> Simple.  Eliminate pairwise losing candidates when they occur.  (A 
> pairwise losing candidate is a candidate who would lose every one-on-one 
> contest against every remaining candidate.)
> 

What if there is a cycle and only three candidates remaining?  Then none of them are the pairwise loser.

Bottom-Two Runoff is even simpler.  Rather than finding the pairwise loser, just eliminate the loser of the pair of candidates having the least number of "votes" (in how IRV counts "votes").

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