Santa Fe, New Mexico, holds non-partisan elections for city office in March 2018. On November 29, a state district court ruled that Santa Fe must use ranked choice voting. See this story. The city election law itself has mandated use of ranked choice voting for some years, but the city has refused to implement it. Thanks to Rob Richie for this news.
RCV/IRV continues to ignore most of the data in a Place Votes Table.
IE — RCV/IRV is one more stunt machination by math MORONS to get rigged majorities — like NPV.
PR and AppV — pending Condorcet head to head math.
Ranked choice voting in single-winner districts as supported by Rob Richie, FairVote, CoFER and all others will perpetuate one-party rule because only the biggest civic group will always win 100% of the time.
The United Coalition has been using pure proportional representation for more than twenty-two consecutive years and it works fine.
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Say, DemoRep, what would you think of this system used in Michigan’s UP in the 1920s?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanson's_method
Apparently, ranked choice voting would make enough of a difference for incumbents to resist its implementation. That should tell you how beholden incumbents are to plurality voting.
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Condorcet was obviously correct.
A > B
C comes along.
IF
C > A and
C > B
then C is the Condorcet Winner (CW).
Other folks have mystified elections with 3 or more choices — with their *criteria*.
Tiebreaker needed (such as Approval Voting) IF *circular ties* A > B > C > A
Computer voting needed in any large Condorcet election to do all the combinations math.
The Santa Fe city charter provided that RCV voting would be implemented once the equipment could permit correction of incorrectly marked ballots. Last July the city council voted to not use the equipment in 2018, after the vendor promised a completed implementation by August. The vendor had previously missed deadlines. The vendor came up with a software match that the state certified. It appears the plaintiff then went to court.
It is not clear what is meant by “irregularly marked”. In the 2017 Minneapolis mayoral election 28.7% of voters did not express a preference for three of the 16 mayoral candidates.
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Office
Each Name and party name
Boxes/Ovals with Numbers in them.
Repeat Number under each box/oval.
Max 5 or 10 Numbers per line.
Wider Name/Number separation lines.
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Some mini education/instructions — sample example ballots
First choice. Vote 1 inside box/oval.
Second, etc choices, Vote 2, 3, etc. inside boxes/ovals.
Use one Number per name.
Use same Number one time per office.
The other major stunt machination by math MORONS to get rigged majorities is – guess what — top 2 primaries.
Thus – Top 2 / RCV / NPV — the 3 Hydra heads of ANTI-Democracy EVIL.
PR and AppV – pending Condorcet math