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