Instant Runoff Voting
I ran acroos an article about a Progressive winning an election in Vermont. While reading the article, I ran across the term, "Instant Runoff Voting".
It's a system being proposed and tried in a few cities where Voters rank preferences and if there is no majority winner, the top two candidates are then recounted with any lower vote getters dropped off and the ranking used to determine who wins.
The article illustrates the process.
Kiss, a state representative, received 39 percent of the vote on the first ballot, while Democrat Hinda Miller had 31 percent and Republican Kevin Curley won 26 percent.
Curley and two trailing independent candidates were then dropped out of the count and their votes re-allocated according to voters' second choices.
Kiss won on the second count, with 4,761 votes to Miller's 3,966.
I had never heard of this system before. I find it interesting and looked up a couple sites that further explain it.
Fairvote.com
IRV.com
I'm curious if others had heard of this.
1 Comments:
Hmmmm... it is interesting. Not sure if I like the way they structure it for the instant run off. I do very much like the idea of runoff voting, though.
I believe Washington state is talking about going to such a system. I don't think it's of the instant variety. But, I could be wrong about that. I'll have to look into it.
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