Instant ideas. (Networks).(alternative voting system)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, February, 2002
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ELECTORAL REFORM IN CONGRESS MAY have a positive impact for those pushing instant runoff voting (IRV). With nearly $3 billion likely to be flowing to the states to modernize voting equipment, IRV has become technically feasible.
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In an IRV system, voters have the option to rank as many candidates as they wish--their favorite candidate first, their next-favorite second, and so on. If no candidate is the first choice of more than half the voters, the ballots are redistributed to reflect voters' second and third choices until someone wins a majority of the ballots and is declared ...
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