The New York times has this op-ed by former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, advocating instant runoff voting.
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New York Times Carries Howard Dean’s Op-ed in Support of Instant Runoff Voting — 7 Comments
One of the funniest pressers was when Howard Dean was brought in to defend Burlington’s IRV, when it was being repealed. Someone asked about the shenanigans that Bob Kiss supporters had used against the Democrat mayoral candidate. Dean replied that IRV had only been used for one election. The IRV supporter had to correct him, and point out that IRV had been used twice. Dean then went on to say that voters don’t like the rough stuff – but the rough stuff had been effective in an IRV election.
Which math moron infection is the worst — IRV or Top 2 primary ??? Answer both are FATAL.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. — pending Head to Head math.
I was at the Presidential Election Law Forum at Fordham Law School. I spoke with Edward B. Foley (known as “Ned”) – Directs Election Law @ Moritz at Ohio State’s Law School. His topic was: Third-Party and Independent Presidential Candidates: The Need for a Runoff Mechanism. He first spoke about past elections where the Third Party candidates had a higher percent of votes then the different between the Major Party candidates (C > A-B). He then spoke about Instant-Runoff Voting.I questioned him on the difference of Instant-Runoff voting and Approval voting. He at first liked Approval voting for its simplicity but felt it was to easy for a Party to put spoilers on the ballot.
I’m a fan of approval voting because it’s the easiest to understand and it allows voters to use current ballots, just with a different method of casting and counting.
Lee, I agree. I do not know about spoilers, but how does this type of voting handled Ties?
What election system does not have a possibility of ties ???
DEmo REp, the question was how does Approval voting handle that possibility. If after counting all the votes, do they method then do a run-off for the tied candidates?
One of the funniest pressers was when Howard Dean was brought in to defend Burlington’s IRV, when it was being repealed. Someone asked about the shenanigans that Bob Kiss supporters had used against the Democrat mayoral candidate. Dean replied that IRV had only been used for one election. The IRV supporter had to correct him, and point out that IRV had been used twice. Dean then went on to say that voters don’t like the rough stuff – but the rough stuff had been effective in an IRV election.
Which math moron infection is the worst — IRV or Top 2 primary ??? Answer both are FATAL.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. — pending Head to Head math.
I was at the Presidential Election Law Forum at Fordham Law School. I spoke with Edward B. Foley (known as “Ned”) – Directs Election Law @ Moritz at Ohio State’s Law School. His topic was: Third-Party and Independent Presidential Candidates: The Need for a Runoff Mechanism. He first spoke about past elections where the Third Party candidates had a higher percent of votes then the different between the Major Party candidates (C > A-B). He then spoke about Instant-Runoff Voting.I questioned him on the difference of Instant-Runoff voting and Approval voting. He at first liked Approval voting for its simplicity but felt it was to easy for a Party to put spoilers on the ballot.
I’m a fan of approval voting because it’s the easiest to understand and it allows voters to use current ballots, just with a different method of casting and counting.
Lee, I agree. I do not know about spoilers, but how does this type of voting handled Ties?
What election system does not have a possibility of ties ???
DEmo REp, the question was how does Approval voting handle that possibility. If after counting all the votes, do they method then do a run-off for the tied candidates?