ranked choice voting

Do we have enough members from New York City to have a thread on the city's June primary elections?, In my district alone these are the offices that are going to be on the Democratic primary ballot: Mayor (12 candidates) Public Advocate ( 3) Comptroller (10) District Attorney (8) This...

Most people who post on this forum are smarter than me, so I thought I'd see how people would feel about Ranked-Choice voting in the US. I know a couple states have tried to skirt the Electoral College with the proportional award (ME, NE, and CO are the only ones so far, right?). But Maine...

That is an alternative to first-past-the-post and delayed runoffs. One ranks the candidates by preference, and the ballots are counted by removing the candidate with the fewest highest preferences and then recounting with the preferences for that candidate being absent. Let's look at this very...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuKDXeJt7KA Year after year I hear so many complaints about voting systems, but have not seen much dialog about good alternatives. I would appreciate a careful critique of Range Voting, perhaps in contrast to Approval voting, or other such weighted systems...

The July 29, 2007 episode of Media Matters with Bob McChesney (not to be confused with the other Media Matters) featured 2004 Green Party Presidential Candidate, David Cobb. What really interested me was their discussion of instant runoff voting (IRV). I'd heard the term before but never...

I've ranted and argued against the Electoral College in past posts. Do all of us now agree that this worthless, anti-democratic anachronism should be totally abolished after the election? Surely I do not have to review the feeble arguments in favor of this out-dated institution or the obvious...

Urgent note to Tricky! Would you consider moving to New Mexico (at least for a few months)? You're one of the few people I can think of who might be able to make this interesting idea for IRV a reality. If you haven't already seen this, it's from the July 12 issue of The Nation (available...