Forum Post: We Need National Instant Run-Off Voting
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 27, 2011, 3:30 p.m. EST by TampaBay99r
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"Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as preferential voting, the alternative vote and ranked choice voting, is a voting system used to elect one winner. Voters rank candidates in order of preference, and their ballots are counted as one vote for their first choice candidate. If a candidate secures a majority of votes cast, that candidate wins. Otherwise, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. A new round of counting takes place, with each ballot counted as one vote for the advancing candidate who is ranked highest on that ballot. This process continues until the winning candidate receives a majority of the vote against the remaining candidates."
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
-This way, you can vote for who you really want and have your vote also count for the 'lessor of two evils.' With this system, we will find out what/who the nation really wants instead of simply who they feel compelled to vote for to keep the other one out.
Absolutely. Plus a legitimate, verifiable voting system unlike our bogus "oh, we'll tell you who won, you can trust us" system. Plus unlimited right to exit polls. Anytime exit polls are blocked or not reported, trouble is afoot.
I hope that people with Occupy Together and OWS, will educate themselves about, and work to pass Instant Run-Off Voting. IRV will open the doors to new parties to replace the corrupt two that team with Wall Street to dominate USA politics.
Yeah, and get a mayor like Oakland's. That's is how she won.