Posted on 09/07/2009 3:14:59 PM PDT by fiscon1
About a month ago, I did a story about a voting battle being played out in Pierce County in Washington state. Back in 2006, Pierce County put on its ballot an initiative to change its voting system to ranked choice voting.
RCV) is the American English term for a voting system used for single-winnerelections, in which voters rank candidates in an order of preference. If no candidate is the first preference of a majority of voters, the candidate with the fewest number of first preference rankings is eliminated and that candidate's ballots are redistributed at full value to the remaining candidates according to the next ranking on each ballot. This process is repeated until one candidate obtains a majority of votes among candidates not eliminated. The term "instant runoff" is used because the method is said to simulate a series of runoff elections tallied in rounds, as in an exhaustive ballot election.[1]
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I don’t really think I like this idea
None of them ever produce a reliable and measurable advantage over the tried and true system of one man one vote.
I think some of the European countries use this.
It sounds like it would work on the face of it but when you think deeply, which academics can’t so, it doesn’t seem like it would be right.
It would be a problem for the Baraqqis who are challenged to do more than push the big “D” button.......
Their second choice is the Socialist Party then the People’s Revolutionary Party.... etc
Several professional societies use this method, and it seems to work well. It's much easier to score than ay ranked voting system.
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