Thanks. After looking into this, wikipedia provides a long list of things that can be referred to as "preferential voting." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefer

Thanks. After looking into this, wikipedia provides a long list of things that can be referred to as "preferential voting." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting However, AFAIK, IRV is the system which most closely fits what gradstudent described.