That depends on how people vote.I know how it works. One of the 2 major parties will ultimately win.
That's not what an "exhausted" ballot is. An exhausted ballot is one where the voter failed to rank all the candidates, and all that are left are candidates they didn't rank. Which is exactly the same as the voter not showing up to the runoff election.The ballots that don't have any major party vote end up "exhausted", that is the next candidate on their list is already eliminated.
No, that's not how it works. The ballots get assigned to the candidates as ranked by the voter.The ballots that have major party c`andidates somewhere on the list get assigned to that candidate until one of them is over 50% and he wins.
That's not what it's about. The majority isn't always right, and approval of 51% of voters doesn't legitimize anything. What RCV does is eliminate the spoiler effect. It takes away the "lesser-of-two-evils" nonsense and lets people vote honestly. And that's what scares the two-party drones. Lesser-of-two-evils is all they know. They've long ago given up on trying to nominate good candidates. All they have to do is convince voters that the "other guy" is worse.If you just have to have a winner with a majority because you think it bestows some kind of extra "legitimacy" ...
You just claimed above that RCV guarantees that the major parties win. What gives?I know how math works. We don't need funky counting games to figure out who got the most votes in an election. RCV is just a way to give the loser a chance to win, because he has more #2 ranks than the guy that actually won.
You seem to be grasping for objections.