Jo Craven McGinty has this article about Instant Runoff Voting in the Wall Street Journal. The article mentions that Maine is voting soon on whether to implement it for elections for state office and congress. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
Jo Craven McGinty has this article about Instant Runoff Voting in the Wall Street Journal. The article mentions that Maine is voting soon on whether to implement it for elections for state office and congress. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
Please don’t post links to paywalled articles.
It is my policy not to link to paywalled articles. But I linked to this because, for some reason, I was able to read it. Anyway, it is significant that the Wall Street Journal did an article on this subject, so there is some value in the blog post even if it is behind a paywall for some readers. I wish the New York Times would mention IRV. Today there is another hysterical op-ed in the NY Times by Timothy Egan subtitled, “Vote for a third party candidate? Sure, but not this year.” The thesis is that Trump is so bad, anyone with a conscience will vote for Hillary Clinton. No mention of the idea of implementing IRV.
IRV IGNORES most of the data in a Place Votes Table.
See my many earlier postings — i.e. the 34-33-32 example.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. — pending head to head voting.
After looking at other methods, I liked Primary Approval voting. Approval voting is a single-winner voting method used for elections. Each voter may “approve” of (i.e., select) any number of candidates. The winner is the most-approved candidate.
Guy Ottewell first described the system in 1977, also by Robert J. Weber, who coined the term “Approval Voting.” It was more fully published in 1978 by political scientist Steven Brams and mathematician Peter Fishburn.
How would you handle ties?
Even approval voting would be a step-up. And we wouldn’t have to change ballot already printed. Just change how they’re cast and counted.
I prefer the Schulze method of voting. It looks complicated to do the calculations by hand but once you do 1 or 2 its actually pretty easy.