Two reasons why the diagrams I linked to show "centrist" candidates fairing well under Instant Runoff Voting (at least when there's one main ... assume people vote according to ideological preferences rather than voting for "big names." The classic case where Instant Runoff Voting (arguably) breaks down is when the voters have normally distributed ideological preferences, but ...

Mesmerizing. The second-to-last series of pictures, including both a "centrist" and a "spoiler", seems to show that Instant Runoff Voting isn't all that bad for centrists.

Local elections are coming up

We have city elections this year in November. We're voting for: 1. Mayor 2. City Council 3. Park Board (both my district, and three "at-... the Board subject to the powers and duties of the Mayor? Also: Minneapolis is implementing ranked-choice voting (which is to say, instant runoff). We get to pick our three favorites for mayor. The process for counting votes for things like the three at-large ...

Was it a conspiracy of sorts?: The IOC against the Chicago Olympic bid?

... won the Olympics, rather than being the first country eliminated. Here were the voting totals by round: We see that Rio's total exploded in Round 2 after..., and possibly other objective metrics; 2) Publish the votes of individual IOC members; 3) Adopt a true Instant runoff voting system, rather than let the delegates switch their votes from round to round, which increases the likelihood of ...

Back to work today - 24-26 October 2009

... can start thinking about getting involved. The Taliban of Afghanistan is threatening citizens away from voting in a runoff election , which seems to be fairly standard fare. Of course, in a place like ... they stuck with us through the last few years, so they should have instant access to the President." The very bottom of the barrel comes from ...

Solving California's Budget Problems

... on the budget with a preferential voting system. Normally : The legislators are ... amount of money. Under preferential voting : (a) Every legislator can create their... choice, etc. (c) The preferential voting system selects the budget with ... many different varieties of preferential voting, but they all have something ... commonly known preferential voting system is Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV) (also ...

Oscars Adopt Hugo Voting System

...usually asks to be left anonymous), the Academy Awards, along with expanding the Best Picture nominations from five to ten, will adopt the same sort of Instant Runoff Voting that we use for the Hugo Awards and other WSFS elections. Until now, they've been using first-past-the-post, so there may well ...

Election Theory Visualization

Expanding on the visualization of regions of a 2D political space where various choices are elected, I did a couple series of small multiples: three choices, two held stationary, one moving ; four choices, varying population distribution grouping tightness . Probably the most interesting pages of images are for Instant Runoff, here and here .

deancastiel Icon Free-For-All Voting

... guys don't care - you just want the voting to go up! I know that some people ... fair as possible, we'll be using 'instant runoff voting.' For those of you who are familiar .... For those that aren't familiar with instant runoff, check out Wikipedia , or ask me. VOTING RULES 1. Vote for your 1st, 2nd, ..., using the corresponding icon number. 2. No voting for yourself or asking others to vote for ...

A province 's supreme tribunal continues Wink Overflow Balloting ( IRV )

Instant Runoff Voting ( IRV ) is a mode of voting where electors can rank their nominee picks. It is supported by Carnival Voting and by the Greenness Party. Since IRV is a new thought to some people, they oft worry if it can be maked, and if their local authoritieses will let it. So, the tribunal win may be utile in overcoming expostulations to pro-IRV runs. Additionally, since ...