On January 19, the city council of San Leandro, California, voted 5-2 to use Instant Runoff Voting for the city’s own elections in 2010. San Leandro is in Alameda County. Since Oakland and Berkeley will be using it this year for their city elections, San Leandro was persuaded to try it as well. Thanks to Blair Bobier for this news.
Richard — In November 2000 voters in San leandro voted 63% to 37% to make an IRV an option — “The run-off system may include mailed ballots, an instant run-off voting system when such technology is available to the City, or a special run-off election.:
See:
http://archive.fairvote.org/irv/irvwins.htm
Thank you. I fixed it just now.
The vote was actually 5-2. Diana Souza voted in favor of ranked choice voting despite making arguments against it.
Thank you, poster #3; I fixed the text just now.
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