Runoff Voting

Runoff voting can refer to:

  • Two-round system, a voting system used to elect a single winner, whereby only two candidates from the first round continue to the second round
  • Instant-runoff voting, an electoral system whereby voters rank the candidates in order of preference
  • Contingent vote, a two-round system of instant-runoff voting.
  • Exhaustive ballot, a reiterative voting system whereby rounds of voting continue (with or without elimination) until one candidate achieves a majority, also called repeated balloting

Famous quotes containing the word voting:

    “All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)