There are (minor) jurisdictions where a runoff is done here (Canada) too.
But the wider method by far, and still all of the "important" elections, are straight plurality. Similar to the U.S., actually, where, for instance, Clinton achieved the Presidency the same way when Perot got an extraordinary percentage of votes.

And yes, you did 'ask' on Wiki. And I objected. Seemed reasonable to do so at the time, the question having been posed. Especially when you made it clear that you were still hoping to eliminate "Zorro" with that approach.

As you say, the question of Zorro/Viper is now moot. I would have liked to hear why Zorro was out-of-bounds though. It can't be because of trademark issues, because neither book titles nor movie titles are copyrightable. And "Taz", a character name, may have been copyright yet has been a code name.

UPDATE: Seeing Ken's later reply I see that the liklihood is that it has been used before and so does not qualify.

>There were no rules to begin with. I chose to suggest a method used here in the States -- a runoff between top 2 [3 because of tie for second] because NO suggestion got a majority. You took issue because you say in Canada the one with the plurality wins. I prefer a majority because it is at least closer to what Ken wants in the first place -- as close to consensus as possible.
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>Anyway, Zorro and Viper are moot points now.
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>>Renoir,
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>>Well it wasn't officially stated, but others who voted for "Zorro" have seen fit to re-cast for "Zorro" in this new scheme, so I don't think I'm the only one who saw it as a "resetting".
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>>And as I said before, (and resetting or not) this can only give the advantage for the non-Zorro votes, even if the counts are carried forward for all remaining contestants. All of the non-Zorro votes now get another DIFFERENT vote. And the "atmosphere" surrounding this resetting clearly shows a bias AGAINST Zorro votes.
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>>It's unfortunate that this mechanism didn't allow for stipulating "rules" at the beginning. But it didn't/couldn't, and it is not proper to install new rules now.
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>>Cheers