On April 19, the California Senate Elections Committee passed SB 1288, which lets all California cities use instant runoff voting for their own city elections if they wish. Currently, only charter cities have that freedom. The bill received “Aye” votes from three Democrats on the Committee, Ben Allen, Loni Hancock, and Robert Hertzberg. The lone Republican member, Joel Anderson, voted “No”, and the remaining Democrat, Carol Liu, did not vote even though she was present. In California, legislators who abstain have the same effect as if they had voted “No.”
SB 1288 now goes to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill is sponsored by Senator Mark Leno.
Instant runoff voting creates a winner-take-all election where the biggest party/civic group wins a disproportionately large number of cases, the only alternative for change is the 2nd biggest party and that cements the two-party system.
I first started pronring pure proportional representation, the correct voting system for fair elections in 1992, ran for Congress in 1993 and Governor of California in 1994 on a platform of voting reform through pure proportional representation.
Sadly, Fairvote and other advocates of IRV, have gone out of theit way to degrade the work for the voting system which offers the fairest solution to plurality elections.
I was targeted by slanderers and antagonists who made a pact with google founder after google derived from my names, copied my logo, used page rank to sell ads and used my persona as an artist as they tried to pre-empt the “juice”. For example they turned all search traffic to the Roberts Rules of Order RRO parliamentarians in 1997 after their creative juices were ignited by me but while certain parliamentarians became big business then, RRO does not use proportional representation so much time has been lost. And SF uses IRV now, but it simply cements the egotist power grabbers, divides the city into eleveven arbitrary districts and the promoters of IRV are still on the rediculous campaign for IRV. Fortunately, I am here to tell you IRV is no good.
The proper advanced method using Number Votes is Head to Head math aka Condorcet math —
ALL combinations of
Test Winner(s) versus a Test Loser with Other Losers.
The votes from the Other Losers go to a TW or TL for test purposes.
If a TW wins in ALL combinations, then it wins.
If a TL loses in ALL combinations, then it loses.
Redo the TW-TL-OL math, if needed.
One tiebreaker would be to use YES/NO Approval Voting along with the Number Votes —
Lowest YES would lose – and redo the TW-TL-OL math, if needed.
In legislative body elections, the winners would have a voting power in the legislative body equal to the final votes each gets —
i.e. each legislator is the AGENT-Representative of the voters.