Instant Runoff Voting News

Is Instant Runoff Voting Hurting Minorities in Takoma Park Maryland?

2008-07-24 by opednews - opednews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion

[The latest talking point of Instant Runoff Voting advocates is that IRV "can empower communities of color". Well "the truth is out there" right there in Fair Votes' own back yard. It turns out that Takoma Park Maryland, the home base ...

Instant Runoff Voting Means Touch Screen Tricks in North Carolina

2008-07-22 by Cafe Talk

Since there is no federally approved software to count instant runoff voting, the NC State Board of Elections set up a "workaround" to help out Henderson County, NC, a touchscreen jurisdiction in the test. Luckily there was no "runoff" ...

Instant Runoff Voting: Pragmatically Political, Politically ...

2008-07-23 by ...the end of man is to know

The benefit of Instant Runoff Voting is huge. It allows voters to actually reveal their preferences. Though I am deeply dismayed by many of McCain?s policies and thoughts, I feel that I must vote for him to knock off Obama. ...

Ranked choice voting methods chalk up new wins in NC, more

2008-07-19 by fairvote.blog

It included two amendment that strengthen the bill: confirming that jurisdictions will only use instant runoff voting if they choose to adopt it and establishing a process to ensure instant runoff voting elections are run securely and ...

Thoughts on Instant Runoff Voting

2008-06-26 by And Now For Something Completely Different

Ever since discovering Instant Runoff Voting, I have been amazed how our electoral process can so structure our view of politics, and how little it seems to be treated by political economists. Here is an element of the political process ...

IRV (Instant Runoff Voting)

2008-07-17 by The Working Class Heretic

A charter amendment for Instant Runoff Voting will be on the ballot here in Memphis this fall. Under IRV when you vote you select your first second and third choices. In an IRV system voters would be allowed to rank candidates in order ...

North Carolina, Instant Runoff Voting and the Flying Car

2008-06-23 by Protect North Carolina Elections - Stop Instant Runoff Voting

Some people want the state to switch to instant runoff voting, which allows a winner to be named without holding a separate runoff because voters rank all the candidates by their preference during the primary. The concept has been used ...

Kathy Dopp and Experts Deconstruct Instant Runoff Voting ...

2008-06-17 by Protect North Carolina Elections - Stop IRV

Kathy Dopp has laid out the facts and addressed the faults and myths about IRV in a second report on the flaws of instant runoff voting. You can read the press release here. Kathy enlisted the assistance of top national computer voting ...

URGENT ACTION ALERT AND UPDATE: SB 1263 Instant Runoff Voting ...

2008-07-09 by Protect North Carolina Elections - Stop Instant Runoff Voting

A well intended amendment to have a 3 year pilot program for instant runoff voting was inserted in an "omnibus" election bill last week. This pilot does not address the problems from the last pilot for IRV, breaks our own laws, ...

Instant Runoff Voting Not Constitutional says St. Paul MN City ...

2008-06-18 by Protect North Carolina Elections - Stop IRV

Paul to conduct local elections using instant runoff voting is not constitutional, according to John Choi, City Attorney for Saint Paul. The City Council may put the amendment on the ballot but it is not recommended. ...