Usually, the pain is worse on one side of your body. Read more. Flank pain refers to discomfort in your upper abdomen or back and sides. It develops in the area below the ribs and above the pelvis. Usually, the pain is worse on one side of your body. Most people experience flank pain at least once in their life, and the discomfort is usually temporary. However, constant or severe flank pain may indicate a serious medical condition, such as dehydration or a urinary tract infection.
Instant runoff voting (IRV) is a method of counting ranked choice ballots. A ranked choice ballot is. a ballot style where voters are asked to order the candidates in order of preference. Depending on the variant, the voter can be asked for a partial ordering where voters are allowed to.
This article is about voting systems that use ranked ballots. For voting systems that use ballots rated on the interval scale, see cardinal voting systems. Preferential voting or rank voting describes certain voting systems in which voters rank outcomes in a hierarchy on the ordinal scale.When choosing between more than two options, preferential voting systems provide a number of advantages over first-past-the-post voting (also called plurality voting).his does not mean that preferential voting is always the best system; Arrow's impossibility theorem proves that no method can simultaneously obtain all properties desirable in a voting system.