[EM] "Instant-runoff voting" article renamed to "Ranked-choice voting" on English Wikipedia

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 2024-10-18 17:38, Chris Benham wrote:
> 
> I gather that "Instant Runoff Voting" was originally a promotional name 
> in the US that after being used for a long time was changed (for some 
> reason I forget) to Ranked Choice Voting.

 From what I understand, one of the public-facing organizations (might 
have been the LWV) suggested the name because, to the voter, the 
characteristic feature is that you rank the candidates. And then 
FairVote found out that it helped their advocacy, so it stuck.

-km