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Had to add this after a conversation with Brodt. From an article on the Condorcet winner. That crazy Arrow and his theorem.

Consider, for example, the following vote count of preferences with three candidates {A,B,C}:

499: A,B,C
498: C,B,A
3: B,C,A

In this case, B is preferred to A by 501 votes to 499, and B is preferred to C by 502 to 498, hence B is preferred to both A and C. So according to the Condorcet criterion, B should win. By contrast, according to the rules of IRV, B is ranked first by the fewest voters and is eliminated, and C wins with the transferred votes from B; in plurality voting A wins with the most first choices.

Any of the candidates could be considered the "winner."

It's even more arous^H^H^H^H^Hexciting because of the correct use of the semicolon.

'Bizarre' contains both 'i' and 'e.' William Shakespeare was never knighted. Too bad.