{"id":6886,"date":"2014-05-27T13:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T19:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2014-05-27T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T19:51:14","slug":"instant-run-off-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/instant-run-off-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant run-off voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think all elections should have instant run-off voting, where you select a second, even third choice, among candidates. However, Republicans are never going to agree with anything Dems want. <\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party should be able to use IRV in its own primaries. Our governor\u2019s race is a great example: five candidates are trailing Undecided. Under the current system, the winner will be someone the majority doesn\u2019t want. How many people avoid voting under such circumstances?<\/p>\n<p>There should also be a None of the Above so that all the candidates know the voters are unhappy with their options.<\/p>\n<p>I would vote Morales, Rael, Webber, Lopez, and None of the Above. Let the party lead the way in our own primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think all elections should have instant run-off voting, where you select a second, even third choice, among candidates. However, Republicans are never going to agree with anything Dems want. The Democratic Party should be able to use IRV in its own primaries. Our governor\u2019s race is a great example: five candidates are trailing Undecided. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/instant-run-off-voting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instant run-off voting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886","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=6886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}