Wasted vote under instant-runoff voting
In the alternative vote, ballot exhaustion occurs when a voter's ballot can no longer be counted, because all candidates on that ballot have been eliminated from an election.
Contributors to ballot exhaustion include:
This may occur because the voter chooses not to fill out a complete preference ranking, or because the ballot format itself limits the number of preferences that may be expressed. This results in "exhausted" or "inactive" ballots. For example, in Minneapolis, the city limits voters to 3 rankings of candidates on ballots for city elections.
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