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1 <div class="rbmoreinfo">
2 <h4>About Instant Runoff Voting</h4>
3
4 <p><%= link_to "Instant runoff voting",
5 "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Runoff_Voting" %> is an electoral
6 system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. In an IRV
7 election, if no candidate receives an overall majority of first
8 preferences the candidates with fewest votes are eliminated one by one,
9 and their votes transferred according to their second and third
10 preferences (and so on), until one candidate achieves a majority.</p>
11
12 <p>Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is also known as the Alternative Vote (AV) and
13 by several other names.</p>
14
15 </div>

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