> When you go to vote, you rate all of the candidates 1 through 4, 1 being your first choice, 4 being the last. When the votes are counted, they count all of the first choices. If there is a tie, whoever is in last place has all of their votes given to the voters' second choice. If there's still a tie, the new last place's votes are given to the voters' second choices, and so on. If I got any of this wrong, please correct me. (Anyone's also welcome to explain it in more detail)
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> Because of it, people aren't afraid to vote for the other parties. I know they do this in Australia, but I'm not sure where else.
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> Just thought I'd add this in, I think the whole system is rather interesting.

I'm fairly sure this is the Single Transferable Vote system which is used also in the Republic of Ireland. If I can find one of my politics books, I'll elaborate...

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