On February 23, the New Hampshire Election Law Committee voted 10-10 on HB 1264, the bill to allow ranked choice voting in primaries and for local non-partisan office. In New Hampshire, committee votes don’t determine whether bills advance. They still get a vote on the floor. The fact that this bill got ten votes is a sign that it could pass the floor.
Arguments for the bill relate to the presidential primary, and also the fact that Maine has been able to use the system for several elections now. Arguments against are mostly the expense of buying new vote-counting machines. Thanks to Alvin See for this news.
Election costs as a pct of USA economy ???
Under 0.1 pct ???
Condorcet = RCV done right.
It uses STV for multi-member districts. This would be OK if there were consistency in use of multi-member districts.
Does az aka Demo Rep aka Thomas Jones needs to say that on every ranked choice voting article? It’s getting old.
But not in general elections, where RCV could be most useful.
@WZ,
Why do you believe it does not apply to general elections?
See the first part of the actual bill. It appears that caption may be in error. I would expect that the bill itself is dispositive.
The bill does provide that the use of RCV is optional in primaries.
With its very large House (400 members) NH is perfect for STV, and they could get rid of their floterial districts. They could let larger cities and towns delineate their own districts. Any city or town with 8 or more representatives could divide into districts with minimum of 4 and max of 7 representatives per district.
Any town entitled to between 3 and 7 representatives would be a single district.
Smaller towns would agglomerate into districts entitled to at least 3 representatives.