How Can One Person Win an Election?

Imagine you're in a class of 30 kids, and there are three different flavors of ice cream: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. If the most kids pick one flavor, even if it's not the favorite of everyone, that flavor wins, even though fewer people picked it than the others combined.

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A child wins a race by getting more votes than others, even if they only had one more vote.
An ice cream flavor wins with the most votes, even though many kids preferred other flavors.
One person in class gets picked as leader because they had more votes than anyone else.

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