On May 23, the California Senate passed SB 1288 by 23-12. All Democrats who voted, voted “yes.” All Republicans who voted, voted “no” except that one Republican voted for the bill. The bill lets all cities and counties use Instant Runoff Voting for their own officers. Under current law, only charter cities and charter counties have that freedom. Most cities in California are not charter cities.
Gee again — IRV IGNORES most of the data in a Number Votes Table —
34 AMZ
33 ZMA
16 MAZ
16 MZA
99
A 34 — 16 — 49 — 99
M 32 — 67 — 0 — 99
Z 33 — 16 — 50 — 99
99 — 99 — 99
The IRV FANATIC math morons love to ignore the 67 votes for M in second place
— i.e. M is the compromise *middle* choice.
I.E. IRV W-I-L-L elect even more extremists who WILL claim a mighty mandate from Hell to do whatever.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. — pending Number Votes with Head to Head (Condorcet) math and an App.V. or added place votes tiebreaker.
Here’s the thing your dumb ass brain can’t comprehend Demo Rep… if you have a system other than IRV people ignore any candidate outside the two largest fringe parties because they fear the ‘other side’ winning. You need to get this through your thick, empty, brainless skull already. IRV leads to the election of third-parties precisely because people can risk their first vote on a third option and still fall back to their ‘safe’ option from of the two large fringe parties as their second option. What this will likely do is provide situations where a third-party becomes the second party after the first round of voting, as one of the large fringe parties gets booted from the election because they came in third or lower. This happens in EVERY since case where IRV or an IRV-like system is used. But it seems like your incapable of wiring enough neurons together to ever comprehend this.
The IRV fanatics also do NOT care about symmetry math.
I.E. Z in the example has a mere 50 votes in 3rd (last) place — so should automatically lose.
Stop IRV at ALL COSTS.