For each round of processing inside a computer, the last place voters get their 2nd place choices as a vote.
RCV effectively gives the last place candidate’s voters chances to vote more times than the 1st and 2nd place candidates.
Plus, if we thought the chances of cheating were elevated due to mail-in and early-voting, imagine ALL the possibilities of cheating when the selection happens in a computer, obfuscated by each voter “voting” with a spreadsheet of votes.
For each round of processing inside a computer, the last place voters get their 2nd place choices as a vote.
RCV effectively gives the last place candidate’s voters chances to vote more times than the 1st and 2nd place candidates.
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Allowing *some* votes to count more than others should make RCV illegal.