Bangor Daily News Carries Op-Ed by Larry Diamond on Instant Runoff Voting Initiative

Maine voters will decide on November 8 whether to use Instant Runoff Voting for Congress and state office. Larry Diamond, a long-time scholar of elections and government, has this op-ed in support of the idea.

There has been at least one poll recently and it seems to show the initiative will pass. UPDATE: also see this Bloomberg View columnist’s article on why IRV would work better than the current system. Thanks to Rick Hasen for that link.


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Bangor Daily News Carries Op-Ed by Larry Diamond on Instant Runoff Voting Initiative — 1 Comment

  1. A extreme example-

    49 AMZ
    1 MAZ
    1 MZA
    48 ZMA

    With IRV —
    M loses, 50 A beats 49 Z

    M moderate middle
    A, Z super extremists

    Head to Head (aka Condorcet) – 51 M beats 48 Z
    50 M beats 49 A

    The IRV math MORONS ignore most of the data in a place votes table.

    P.R. and nonpartisan App.V — pending head to head math.

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