On August 14, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee passed SB 212. Currently, only charter cities and charter counties in California may use ranked choice voting for their own elections. The bill extends that to all local governments. Thanks to Steve Chessin for this news.
The bill should permit equal rankings.
The bill should require all candidates be rankable not just 3.
The bill should permit use of numerals. This might even be mandatory given that they clearly express voter intent. If someone votes for Smith as 1 and 3, and Wesson as 2, it is unclear what the voter intended.
If a ballot is exhausted it should be treated as a vote for the continuing candidate with the least votes. If this prevents exclusion, then have a new election with the continuing candidates. If someone doesn’t rank someone, it doesn’t mean they don’t care, it means they don’t have enough information to intelligently rank the candidstes.
When used for multi-seat races, transfers to elected candidates should be permitted, using Meek’s method or the New Zealand method.
RCV is DEFECTIVE/FATAL–
http://ballot-access.org/2019/05/19/two-utah-cities-will-use-ranked-choice-voting-in-municipal-elections-this-year/
Condorcet = RCV/IRV done correctly.