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Originally Posted by blueash
That is an excellent example which you seem to believe was a theft of office. The original vote totals:
Bruce Poliquin 46.33% 134,184
Jared Golden 45.58% 132,013
Tiffany Bond 5.71% 16,552
Will Hoar 2.37% 6,875
Final result after re-allocation of Hoar then Bond votes:
Jared Golden 50.6 142,440
Bruce Poliquin 49.4 138,931
This means that Golden was the second choice of over 10,000 of the voters while Poliquin was second choice of about 4000. Had only those two been on the ballot, Golden was the preferred choice and he ended up winning. Seems like a good system to me. Obviously some voters did not list a second [or third] choice.
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You are making a wrong assumption - if there had only the top two candidates in the first place 4000 would have voted for the eventual winner and he would have won outright..