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

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The Electowiki article covers this. The name IRV is a promotional name
pushed by FairVote in the early 2000s. The name never really caught on and
was never used by anyone but FairVote and Wikipedia, because the first
place to adopt it (San Francisco) renamed it "Ranked-choice voting" because
they thought the name IRV would confuse people into expecting the results
to be released "instantly" (immediately after polls closed). The term IRV
has never seen much widespread use outside voting theory circles and
FairVote.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 9:09 AM Kristofer Munsterhjelm <
km-elmet at munsterhjelm.no> wrote:

> 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
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