[EM] IRV bill on Washington State Governor's desk

[James Green-Armytage]

Hi Ted,
	That's pretty interesting. I think that the direct link to the bill is
here:
http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/billinfo1/dspBillSummary.cfm?billnumber=1447&year=2005
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1447.htm
	It looks to me like it is quite specific to IRV. The title of the bill is
"Establishing a pilot project to examine the use of instant runoff voting
for nonpartisan offices."

Araucaria Araucana <araucaria.araucana at gmail.com> writes:
>http://www.komotv.com/stories/36271.htm
>http://www.oregonlive.com/metronorth/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_north_news/1113472928308700.xml
>Note the last line of the 2nd link.  The reporter ended with the
>comment that single-vote is easier to count.  That seems to be the
>anti-IRV establishment line.
>I don't know the specifics of the bill.  It apparently sets up a 5
>year study by the office of the sec'y of state on alternative voting
>methods in local elections.
>IRV currently has more publicity, but if other voting systems are
>allowed, this could be an opportunity for a Condorcet-based method.
>The web page for the state rep sponsoring the bill is
>    http://www1.leg.wa.gov/house/moeller
>and an email link is provided.
>