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To demonstrate this, consider the following.

80 people: A, C, B

50 people: B, C, A

35 people: C, B, A

IRV eliminates C (as it has the fewest first-place votes) and elects B. But voters on the whole prefer C over B (115 to 50). This is the failure that Pinckney refers to.




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