A,B,C, voting

This is a method of voting for elected positions and referendums where you select your top three choices in order of importance.  I call it A, B, C voting.

How it works:  Let us use Presidential elections as an example to make this method of voting easy to understand.  In this case you pick your number one candidate Ted Cruz, followed by your number two candidate John Kasich, and then your number three candidate Donald Trump.  Now only the first set of votes, people's top choices, are counted first where if a candidate receives the majority vote then they win just like normal (yes I know about the electoral college, but this is an example).  If no candidate receives the 50% plus one majority, then peoples secondary choices are added to the votes in the hopes of getting a candidate to the 50% plus one mark and greater.  If two candidates get more than the 50% plus one vote then the one with the most in this case wins, but if not then the third choice candidate votes are added in.  At this point all candidates should have beyond a 50% plus one vote count and the person with the most votes becomes the winner and they are seen as being the people's overall top choice with respect to people coming to a consensus. Basically everything is designed to get a majority vote with every individual person getting three votes with them not being allowed to vote for the same person twice. 

Conclusion:  No one wants a candidate who did not achieve less than 50% of the vote let alone just edging out that 50% with the population of voters disliking that chosen candidate.  As such this system was proposed by some New York State Congressman whose name I don't remember and is the reason why I don't remember the original name of this voting method.  So why did I even bring this method up?  Reason being that this method can be used in political primaries or even large scale elections to ensure that candidates achieve the plurality with voters to gain legitimacy with respect to being the people's elected representative.