Multi-voting is a consensus building tool which is best preferred when the group has a long list of possibilities and wants to narrow it down to a few for analysis and discussion and/or when a selection process needs to be made after brainstorming.
Multi-voting is a tool for building consensus, best suited when a group has a long list of possibilities and wishes to narrow it down to a few for analysis and discussion, and/or when a selection process is required after brainstorming.

An application-oriented question on the topic along with responses can be seen below.
Below is an application-oriented question on the topic along with responses.
Question:
Question:
What is the Multi-voting method for idea evaluation? What are its benefits that make it so popular? What are its pitfalls or limitations? Explain using an example.
What is the Multi-voting method for idea evaluation? What are its benefits that make it so popular? What are its pitfalls or limitations? Please explain with an example.

Multi-voting is one of the effective methods to refine and select the best amongst many or during the situation of multiple available choices/items/ideas/proposals etc.
Multi-voting is an effective method to select the best option among many choices/items/ideas/proposals, etc.
There are 3 benefits of multi-voting:
Multi-voting has 3 benefits:
1) Sequencing/Ranking the most important amongst all
a. Choosing the first & best top items
b. Selecting what goes first and followed by the next (preferably action items)
2) Elimination of least priorities
3) Categorization or structuring of items into various buckets/units

1) Ranking the most important options
a. Selecting the most important items
b. Choosing what comes first and what follows (preferably action items)
2) Eliminating the least important items
3) Categorizing or dividing items into different buckets/units
To be continued –Multi-voting: To be continued
Excerpt from BenchMark6Sigma