New Hope for Instant-Runoff Voting in Berkeley

The Alameda County, California Board of Supervisors has decided to buy Sequoia vote-counting machines to replace the Diebold machines. This makes it far more likely that Berkeley (which is in Alameda County) will now be able to implement its desire to use IRV in city elections. Berkeley voters voted to use IRV back in March 2004, but the county’s Diebold machines posed a roadblock.


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