On February 23, California Assemblymen Gene Mullin and Mark Leno introduced AB 1294. It would let any city or county choose to use Instant-Runoff voting for its own elections. Currently, only chartered cities and chartered counties may do so without state approval.
Without runoff elections (or its cheaper variant, the instant-runoff), the people is forced to forgo its best choice, consequently politically killing political outsiders. Instant-runoff is a good thing. Let it become the law.
I am a big fan of Instant-Runoff Voting too. I would like to see it become available in elections in Texas where I live.
http://www.instantrunoff.com/
helloy