Another possibility would institute a system called instant-runoff voting, in which voters pick their second-choice candidates upfront in the general election.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/jan/03/runoffs-targeted-in-latest-effort-to-tweak-georgia-elections/

Asked for their second-choice candidate, respondents were struggling to choose between DeSantis and Ramaswamy, with the pair at 33 percent and 31 percent respectively.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12525255/donald-trump-lead-ron-desantis-latest-poll.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

If no one candidate gets over 50% of the vote, then the candidate with the lowest amount of first-place votes gets their ballots sprinkled with magic fairy dust, and their second-choice candidate gets elevated to the status of first-place votes.

Source: https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/11/16/letters-to-the-editor-veterans-story-inspires-beyond-thoughts-and-prayers-ranked-voting-smells-rank-affordability-and-inflation/

Undertaking a trade is perceived as being a second-choice career for those who don’t go to university, which needs to change.

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/work/2023/10/05/tradie-shortage-annual-earnings/