On June 29, SB 1288 passed the California Assembly Elections Committee. It had already passed the Senate. It lets all cities and counties use Instant Runoff Voting for elections for their own officers. Currently, only charter cities and charter counties may do that. The vote was 5-2, with all Democrats voting “yes” and both Republicans voting “no.” Now the bill goes to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
It is odd that Republican legislators in California do not support Instant Runoff Voting. Probably the Republican Party would be better off this year if Instant Runoff Voting were used in Republican presidential primaries. Thanks to Steve Chessin for the news about SB 1288.
This is a vey bad project.
IRV is no good for single-winner elections and time wasteful for multi-seat elections.
Are you interested in pure proportional representation (PR)? The USA Parliament has been using pure proportional representation for more than twenty consecutive years and it works fine.
http://www.usparliament.org/
Now there is the new International Parliament:
http://www.international-parliament.org/
Look at SF city elections as an example of why Republicans won’t like IRV. The Ds probably win all the city/county seats under IRV as set forth by the State. Of course Ds like that. IRV is worse than plurality elections for third parties and independents. Shame on Steve Chessin, FairVote and all those pushing IRV.
Republicans haven’t elected anyone to a San Francisco US House or legislative seat in the last 30 years. Republican Party weakness in San Francisco has nothing to do with Instant Runoff Voting.
IRV = one more method to get EXTREMISTS elected.
Standard example — the MIDDLE is divided — an EXTREMIST wins using IRV.
34 AMZ
33 ZMA
16 MAZ
16 MZA
99
With IRV, M loses, A beats Z 50-49.
A and Z = Hitler / Stalin type extremists.
Moderate Middle has a mere 99 votes in 1st and 2nd place.
IRV IGNORES most of the data in a Place Votes Table.
Can NOT educate math MORONS — to save Mother Earth from power mad LUNATIC extremists — see 2016 LEFT Clinton and RIGHT Trump as perfect IRV examples — due to the many FATAL time bomb defects in the nomination / election systems in the USA since 1776.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. — pending Condorcet Head to Head math.
The biggest civic group wins all single-winner districts in most cases in SF under IRV.
ONLY PR will allow 1/12th (plus one vote) to the elwven SF seats. IRV is not PR, it’s winner-takes-all.