How about something like this:

1. Voters indicate whether they Prefer, Accept, or Reject each candidate.
2. Identify the candidate with the most Prefer votes, call them P.
3. Identify the candidate with the most Accept-or-better votes, call them
   Q.
4. Elect the head-to-head winner between P and Q.

For step 4, this means to count the number of ballots which rate P ahead
of Q, and vice versa, and elect whichever is higher up on more ballots.

Essentially, this method looks at the ballots and says, “We know who the
most voters prefer, and we know who the most voters accept, but which of
them should win? Hey, I know, we can let the votes decide!”

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Nevin's proposed method is pretty good, but it suffers from a slippery
slope problem in a chicken dilemma scenario.

2016-11-14 17:54 GMT-05:00 Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky
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 How about something like this:

 1. Voters indicate whether they Prefer, Accept, or Reject each
 candidate.
 2. Identify the candidate with the most Prefer votes, call them P.
 3. Identify the candidate with the most Accept-or-better votes,
 call them Q.
 4. Elect the head-to-head winner between P and Q.

 For step 4, this means to count the number of ballots which rate P
 ahead of Q, and vice versa, and elect whichever is higher up on
 more ballots.

 Essentially, this method looks at the ballots and says, “We know
 who the most voters prefer, and we know who the most voters
 accept, but which of them should win? Hey, I know, we can let the
 votes decide!”
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