[EM] Instant Runoff Voting - collection of definitions

[Bart Ingles]

I don't mind the occasional IRV plug, but I think repeated posts for the
sole purpose of provoking a flame war are a little outside the charter.  



David Catchpole wrote:
> 
> I wouldn't call it spamming at all.
> 
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Janet didn't ask for a definition of IRV. She asked for other briefly-
> > defined methods. So our IRV spammer posts 7 definitions of Instant
> > Runoff.
> >
> > Rob L., I didn't want to bother you about this,
> > but can you please do something about that spammer?
> >
> >
> > >
> > >Greetings Janet,
> > >
> > >     I have collected a number of definitions given recently in posts from
> > >different lists.
> > >     Maybe you can find something that you can use.
> > >
> > >Regards, Donald
> > >
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11/14/00
> > >      http://www.igc.org/cvd/irv/vermont/index.html  Instant-Runoff Voting
> > >May Get a Look As Uncertainty in U.S. Election Continues,  By DAVID WESSEL
> > >and JAMES R. HAGERTY, Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
> > >     Here is how instant-runoff voting works: In a race with more than two
> > >candidates, voters mark not only their first choice, but their second,
> > >third, fourth choice, and so on. If no candidate gets a majority, the
> > >losing candidates' votes are reallocated until one candidate has a
> > >majority. If the U.S. used such a system, votes for Ralph Nader and Patrick
> > >Buchanan (or, in earlier elections, Ross Perot or George Wallace) would
> > >have been reallocated to whomever their supporters listed as a second
> > >choice.
> > >
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11/16/00
> > >Jason Johnston <Jason.Johnston at oberlin.edu>
> > >[instantrunoff] letters to the editors
> > >         Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) eliminates that flaw.  With IRV,
> > >voters
> > >can choose to rank a second and third choice, and if their first choice is
> > >at the bottom of the pile, their votes are redistributed to their second,
> > >and so on, until the canidate prefered by the majority wins.
> > >  (check www.farivote.org for more info).
> > >
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11/17/00
> > >First Publication: Lansing State Journal,
> > >INSTANT RUNOFFS WILL END 'LOSER-TAKES-ALL':
> > >    Luckily, there is a proven way to find the majority's choice with only
> > >one ballot.  How?  Use a full-choice ballot that lets voters rank their
> > >choices instead of only choosing one.
> > >     Then, if no candidate earns a majority, the least popular one is
> > >dropped and a runoff is held instantly.  In this runoff, each ballot goes
> > >to the highest-ranked candidate marked on it, skipping over dropped
> > >candidates.  This repeats until one candidate has a majority.
> > >    This "instant runoff voting" ends minority winners-without-mandates and
> > >would promote positive campaigns, as candidates would appeal to opponents'
> > >supporters for second and third choice rankings.
> > >
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11/21/00
> > >Village Voice in New York
> > >http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0047/solomon.shtml
> > >Florida Fiasco Puts Radical Reforms on the Table
> > >Taking Back the Vote, by Alisa Solomon
> > >Under IRV, long in use in national elections in Australia and Ireland,
> > >instead of simply marking an X next to the most-desired candidate, voters
> > >would rank them according to preference. If no candidate emerges with a
> > >majority after all the first-choice votes are counted, then the candidates
> > >who received the fewest number of 1's are eliminated. The 2's on those
> > >ballots are then distributed among the remaining candidates until one
> > >achieves a majority.
> > >
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11/20/00
> > >[instantrunoff] Minnesota column on IRV
> > >Thursday, Nov 16 issue of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
> > >http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=82940277
> > >Published Thursday, November 16, 2000, Lori Sturdevant:
> > >     Recent elections have made instant runoff voting look intriguing.
> > >Alan Shilepsky  said people could vote with numbers. They could mark their
> > >ballot with a "1" next to their first choice for an office, a "2" next to
> > >their second choice, and so on.
> > >    The votes would be counted according to the number-one choices. But if
> > >that initial count failed to give one candidate more than 50 percent of the
> > >vote, the count would continue with another step. The ballots for the
> > >candidate in last place would be resorted according to their second-place
> > >choices. The sorting would continue until one candidate's count crossed the
> > >50 percent threshold.
> > >
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11/20/00
> > >[instantrunoff] Houston column on IRV
> > >Copyright 2000 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company
> > >   The Houston Chronicle - View Related Topics
> > >   November 15, 2000, Wednesday 3 STAR EDITION
> > >BYLINE: DOUG SANDAGE; Sandage, a Houston attorney and mediator, was a 2000
> > >Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate.
> > >Instead of voting for just one candidate, voters would note their
> > >preferences in a 1-2-3 sequence. If their first (or second) preference were
> > >not among the top two vote-getters, their second (or third) preference
> > >would automatically receive their votes.
> > >
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12/02/00
> > >COMMON SENSE, by Paul Jacob, [the Term Limits Guy]
> > >There's an easy electronic solution, though: instant runoffs. Say you want
> > >Nader to win -- but if Nader loses, you'd rather have Gore than Bush. Under
> > >instant runoff, you'd vote for Nader as First Choice, Gore as Second
> > >Choice. If no one gets a majority and your First Choice loses, the system
> > >instantly gives your vote to your Second Choice.
> > >It's a new idea. You can find out more about it at www.fairvote.org.
> > >
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