[EM] "IRV" in the news

[Jonathan Lundell]

At 3:28 PM -0700 7/21/06, Brian Olson wrote:
>Also, I really hope this is reporter error and they're not actually 
>implementing the broken bizarro-IRV described in the article.

Worse, actually. Check out their multi-seat variation.

http://www.ncleg.net/sessions/2005/bills/house/html/h1024v5.html

>As used in this section, "instant runoff voting" means a system in 
>which voters rank up to three of the candidates by order of 
>preference, first, second, or third. If the candidate with the most 
>first?choice votes receives the threshold of victory of the 
>first?choice votes, that candidate wins. If no candidate receives 
>the threshold of victory of first?choice votes, the two candidates 
>with the greatest number of first?choice votes advance to a second 
>round of counting. In this round, each ballot counts as a vote for 
>whichever of the two final candidates is ranked highest by the 
>voter. The candidate with the most votes in the second round wins 
>the election.
>
>The threshold of victory of first?choice votes for a partisan 
>primary shall be forty percent (40%) plus one vote. The threshold of 
>victory for a nonpartisan election and runoff or nonpartisan primary 
>and election shall be a majority of the vote. The threshold of 
>victory in a contest that normally uses nonpartisan plurality shall 
>be determined by the State Board with the concurrence of the county 
>board of elections and the local governing board.
>
>If more than one seat is to be filled in the same race, the voter 
>votes the same way as if one seat were to be filled. The counting is 
>the same as when one seat is to be filled, with one or two rounds as 
>needed, except that counting is done separately for each seat to be 
>filled. The first counting results in the first winner. Then the 
>second count proceeds without the name of the first winner. This 
>process results in the second winner. For each additional seat to be 
>filled, an additional count is done without the names of the 
>candidates who have already won.

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/Jonathan Lundell.