There are many ways to run an election, but doing ranked choice and throwing out people by "fewest first place votes" is just stupid.
Let's say there is a four way election: a democratic socialist, a lefty democrat, a moderate democrat and a republican. If I am a democratic socialist, my actual preference is 1,2,3 and 4. But now I am stuck just like I would have been in first-past-the-post, and I have to consider giving my top pick to the moderate democrat and ranking them 3,2,1 and 4.
There are many ways to run an election, but doing ranked choice and throwing out people by "fewest first place votes" is just stupid.
Let's say there is a four way election: a democratic socialist, a lefty democrat, a moderate democrat and a republican. If I am a democratic socialist, my actual preference is 1,2,3 and 4. But now I am stuck just like I would have been in first-past-the-post, and I have to consider giving my top pick to the moderate democrat and ranking them 3,2,1 and 4.