“Think of your vote as one dollar. When ballots are counted, your vote, all 100 pennies, goes to your first choice candidate. If that candidate is eliminated for not having sufficient votes, your vote, all 100 pennies, goes to your second choice candidate. If that candidate is elected, but with a surplus of say 10 percent, it means 90 pennies of your vote have been spent and the remaining 10 pennies will go to your third choice candidate. And so on, until all your vote (pennies) has been spent. In the current (FPTP) system, you lose all 100 pennies if you don’t vote for the single winner.” — Nick Loren