That is absolutely NOT how it works.
Please correct the record. I read your later post and we track together up to a point. But I don’t understand the rest of your post. Would you mind extrapolating from where I started?
Candidate A:48% B:20% C:17% D:15% -— who wins?
If you’re saying that once D is eliminated then each individual 3rd place vote is recounted and so on... gah. I don’t feel any better about the process.