The voters of Benton County, Oregon, have voted for a county initiative to use instant runoff voting for certain partisan county offices. The vote is 54.3% – 45.7%.
The voters of Benton County, Oregon, have voted for a county initiative to use instant runoff voting for certain partisan county offices. The vote is 54.3% – 45.7%.
Maine also passed RCV: http://mainepublic.org/post/maine-passes-ranked-choice-voting
If this is RCV in single-winner districts (AKA IRV or instant runoff voting ), then this is bad news, because with a guaranteed threshold of 50% plus one vote, the top vote getter is usually the winner, cementing biggest party in power, year after year.
IRV (usually single-winner districts) is winner-takes-all which prohibits random wins by those other than the largest faction, random wins by smaller factions under us-style plurality elections who can win due to the split-vote problem.
Are you interested in pure proportional representation (PR)?
The 10th USA Parliament has been using pure PR for more than 21 consecutive years and it works fine:
http://www.usparliament.org
Now there is the new International Parliament:
hrtp://www.international-parliament.org
Nobody has it as good as the United Coalition.
The IRV math brain disease continues to infect regimes.
See earlier postings.