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Well, duh. OP was talking about how Condorcet was superior to instant runoff. You really only need to indicate your top two choices.

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I was talking about both, I suppose. How a preferential system is better than our current system, and how Condorcet seems to be the better than IRV. You only need your top two choices, if there are only 3 parties (or if you only prefer 2 of the candidates). But, as someone else pointed out (in different words), a change in national voting methods would be pretty hard to do. So, if you're going to do it, I'd say do it right. And, that means, getting a system that will allow for growth -- to more then 3 parties if/when that time comes. Note: with Condorcet, you don't need to rank ALL candidates. Only the ones you wish to rank. All others will be considered equally worse than the ones you rank.