On August 3, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee passed SB 1288. The bill allows all California cities and counties, not just charter cities and counties, to use instant-runoff for their own elections if they wish. The bill now goes to the Assembly floor.
The IRV math DISEASE continues to infect.
IRV IGNORES most of the data in a Number Votes Table —
The Middle is divided — as usual.
34 AMZ
33 ZMA
16 MAZ
16 MZA
99
With IRV, M loses, A beats Z 50 to 49.
Number Votes Table
1 — 2 — 3 — Tot
A 34 — 16 — 49 — 99
M 32 — 67 — 0 — 99
Z 33 — 16 — 50 — 99
Tot 99 — 99 — 99
The IRV FANATIC math M-O-R-O-N-S 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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Remedies – P.R. (legislative bodies) and NONPARTISAN Approval Voting (elected executive officers and all judges).
— pending Number Votes with Head to Head (Condorcet) math and an App.V. or added place votes tiebreaker.