Re: [ga] IRV explained/reformatted

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

I support postponement of any consideration of voting methods for
multiple choice elections so that the issues can be more closely
examined by us individually and as a group.

In the interim, we need some means of getting at least basic voting
methods in place for two choice voting (yea/nea system) and anything
that leads to a delay in that should be set aside for the moment.

So I support Harald's current proposal as is, and add my voice to
those calling for a vote on it.


Friday, June 23, 2000, 11:13:46 AM, you wrote:



> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Weisberg <weisberg@texoma.net>
> Subject: IRV explained
> To: ga@dnso.org

> For those not familiar with this mechanism:

> IRV is  a plug-in to a more general election scheme.  It avoids
> plurality/minority rule by finding the greatest consensus on ballot
> items or races in which there are more than 2 choices.  It is
> explained on by the Center for Voting and Democracy
> <http://www.fairvote.org/irv/index.html> as follows:

> IRV allows voters to rank candidates
> as their first choice,
> second choice, third, fourth and so
> on. If a candidate does
> not receive a clear majority of votes
> on the first count, a
> series of runoff counts are
> conducted, using each voter’s top
> choices indicated on the ballot. The
> candidate who received
> the fewest first place ballots is
> eliminated. The ballots are
> then retabulated, with each counting
> as a vote for the
> top-ranked candidate listed on the
> ballot that is still in
> contention. Voters who chose the
> now-eliminated candidate
> have their vote transferred to their
> second choice candidate
> -- just as if they were voting in a
> traditional two-round
> runoff election. This process
> continues until a candidate
> achieves more than fifty percent of
> the vote.
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 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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