[EM] Condorcet//IRV legal language

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_elmet at t-online.de
Fri Mar 31 06:13:48 PDT 2023


While browsing reddit the other day, I found a post by Robert 
Bristow-Johnson (thanks, Robert) linking to a bill proposed by Chad 
Mayes for implementing Condorcet//IRV for Californian recall elections:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2161

He calls it "consensus ranked choice voting", and the CW the "consensus 
candidate".

It doesn't seem like the language itself would need much of a change to 
turn the method into Benham instead; something like changing 24104 (3) 
to "Once a candidate is defeated, or under batch elimination more than 
one candidate is defeated, a new round starts again pursuant to section 
24103."; and then the words "candidate" in 24103 would have to be 
changed to "continuing candidate", and similarly "continuing consensus 
candidate" would have to be defined.

It would perhaps be a bit unwieldy to count, and just having the right 
language doesn't make all obstacles to adopting a method vanish. But it 
shows that it's possible to come up with reasonable legal language for 
Condorcet//IRV and (most likely) Benham.

-km


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