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Round 1 Legend   Instant Runoff Voting   386  (33.0%)    Abolish Electoral College   283  (24.2%)    put 'none of the above' on ballot   266  (22.8%)    Ban soft money   233  (19.9%)  Defeated

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (50.1%), so the last-place candidate (Ban soft money) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 2 Legend   Instant Runoff Voting   464  (40.6%)    Abolish Electoral College   338  (29.5%)  Defeated put 'none of the above' on ballot   342  (29.9%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (50.1%), so the last-place candidate (Abolish Electoral College) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 3 Legend   Instant Runoff Voting   653  (59.1%)  Elected put 'none of the above' on ballot   451  (40.9%)  Defeated

Instant Runoff Voting has enough votes to guarantee victory (50.1%) and is declared a winner.
In the end, 55.9% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 33% if only the first-round votes were used.

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Rank   Fraction of votes for winner 1st  59.1%    2nd  27.4%    3rd  13.5%