Fritz I have a Question?

[Akno21]

Fritz, correct me if I'm wrong-

We use a system called Preferential Voting. Each voter ranks the candidates 1,2,3, in order of prefernce. When the polls close, the first-prefernce votes are tabulated. Let's say John gets 5 first place votes, Harry gets 4, and Jim gets 3. The lowest score is eliminated. So Jim would be out. All the people who voted for Jim put Harry as their second preference, so Harry would get 3 votes added to his score. Harry would win, 7-5.

It eliminates spoilers and saves the trouble of having a run-off.  

[Akno21]

OK, thanks

No problem.

[Akno21]

The only way Harry could win, in this example, is if all three of the voters who put Jim as their first preference, voted for Harry as their second preference.

In my example all of Jim's voters did put Harry second. Your example is still better though.