St. Paul, Minnesota is getting ready to use Instant Runoff Voting for its own city elections. On January 5, a decision was made to design that ballot so that voters can rank as many as six candidates. See this story.
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Edited By Richard Winger
See NY bill story. No need to copy and paste.
When the city council approved the ballot language, they deliberately added the words, “4th, 5th, 6th, and so on”. They then discussed, whether that could be be interpreted as limiting preferences to only 6, and agreed that there was no need to add the words “7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th,” and so on, and agreed it was unnecessary to express the concept of unlimited choice.
A limit of six is contrary to the ballot language.
The MORONS involved were unable to use language such as —
Each Elector may number rank ALL of the candidates using 1, 2, 3, etc., to N — where N is the total number of candidates on the ballots for the office involved.
Perhaps have to add a picture example in the text — for New Age retard bureaucrats and judges ???
Good enough for even MORON SCOTUS folks to understand — who love to mystify everything ???
#3 I watched the video when the city council was writing the ballot language. I don’t think anyone ever tumbled on to the idea that they were really trying to convey, that a voter may rank all candidates.
Scotland has machine counted paper ballots where voters simply wrote numerals next to their candidate.