According to this story in the October 30 Oakland Tribune, the Alameda County (California) Elections Department says the vote-counting machines used in that county can handle Instant Runoff Voting. Alameda County is waiting for the Secretary of State to certify those machines. Because the voters of Oakland voted to use IRV back in 2006, as soon as the vote-counting equipment is ready, it seems likely that the city will use IRV in the city elections in 2010.
One prominent candidate for Mayor of Oakland, Don Perata, seems to fear that the voters aren’t ready for IRV, and he says the city must not move too quickly. This seems unconvincing, as it will have been four years since the voters voted for that system.
Oakland is the third most populous city in the Bay Area, after San Jose and San Francisco.
IRV ignores most of the data in a Place Votes Table.
2 examples
34 H—W—S
33 S—W—H
16 W—H—S
16 W—S—H
99
H 34—16—49
S 33—16—50
W 32—67—0
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49 H—W—S
49 S—W—H
1 W—H—S
99
H 49—1—49
S 49—0—49
W 1—98—0
Who wins with Approval Voting ???
Who wins head to head Condorcet Voting ???
Who wins by adding 1st and 2nd place votes ???
ONE guess.
H Hitler clone
S Stalin clone
W Washington clone
The IRV fanatic math MORONS have set back REAL election reforms about 6,000 years.
IF and when a Hitler or Stalin clone gets elected using IRV, then NO election reform may be possible for the indefinite future — assuming that any future elections will be possible in a TYRANT regime.