{"id":5417,"date":"2012-11-01T11:17:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2012-11-01T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:17:50","slug":"instant-runoff-voting-irv-means-real-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/instant-runoff-voting-irv-means-real-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) means real choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABQJournal Online \u00bb Instant Runoff Voting Could Run Off \u2018Spoilers\u2019<\/a> By John B. Anderson \/ Independent Candidate for President in 1980 <\/a>on Thu, Nov 1, 2012<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s time for major party leaders to stop playing chicken with voters and instead to uphold majority rule with a straightforward reform. Instant runoff voting (IRV) would allow Americans to achieve the basic goal of representative democracy \u2013 electing the candidate with the most support \u2013 while ending the concept of \u201cspoiler.\u201d <\/p>\n

With IRV, voters get to rank candidates in order of choice: first, second and third. A candidate can win with a majority of first choices. If there\u2019s no majority winner, the last place candidate is eliminated, and that candidate\u2019s backers have their votes added to the totals of their compromise choice. This process continues until there\u2019s a majority winner. <\/p>\n

IRV is a proven voting method.<\/font> It\u2019s used to elect Ireland\u2019s president, London\u2019s mayor and Australia\u2019s House of Representatives. American cities using IRV include Oakland, Calif.; San Francisco; Minneapolis; St. Paul, Minn.; and Portland, Maine. New voting machines are making IRV all the easier to implement. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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ABQJournal Online \u00bb Instant Runoff Voting Could Run Off \u2018Spoilers\u2019 By John B. Anderson \/ Independent Candidate for President in 1980 on Thu, Nov 1, 2012 It\u2019s time for major party leaders to stop playing chicken with voters and instead to uphold majority rule with a straightforward reform. Instant runoff voting (IRV) would allow Americans … Continue reading Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) means real choices<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5418,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions\/5418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}