The bill is at http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/bills/intro/S-022. HTM
Check this out: "(3) The instant runoff count committee shall sort and count votes for candidates. If, in the first round, no candidate received a majority of first choices, all candidates shall be eliminated except the two candidates with the greatest number of first choices. Ballots which rank eliminated candidates and which indicate one of the final candidates as an alternate choice shall be counted as votes for whichever of the final candidates is ranked higher for that office on each ballot. In each round, each ballot is counted as one vote for the highest ranked advancing candidate on that ballot. " Note that the method described above immediately reduces the field to "the two candidates with the greatest number of first choices." According to the IRV rules I'm familiar with, candidates should be eliminated one at a time. There are a number of scenarios where standard IRV could get different results than the variation described above. Cheers, - Jan ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
