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by mnomitch 1354 days ago
Oh interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what is the tie breaking mechanism?

And totally agreed on the framing. Also, prepare yourself for the feedback of "we should have a runoff election with the top two" and then people completely rejecting the concept that you've already done the runoff. :)

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Hehe...a bunch of Nate Cohn's in your friend group? :-)

In the event multiple choices have the same number of votes and those choices are the lowest vote getters in the round, RankedVote calculates a Borda Score for each of those candidates across all ballots that were cast. Basically just saying "Ok, these three candidates were tied, which one was ranked lowest on average across the entire group of voters?" And then eliminate that one.