At 3:28 PM -0700 7/21/06, Brian Olson wrote: >Also, I really hope this is reporter error and they're not actually >implementing the broken bizarro-IRV described in the article.
Worse, actually. Check out their multi-seat variation. http://www.ncleg.net/sessions/2005/bills/house/html/h1024v5.html >As used in this section, "instant runoff voting" means a system in >which voters rank up to three of the candidates by order of >preference, first, second, or third. If the candidate with the most >first?choice votes receives the threshold of victory of the >first?choice votes, that candidate wins. If no candidate receives >the threshold of victory of first?choice votes, the two candidates >with the greatest number of first?choice votes advance to a second >round of counting. In this round, each ballot counts as a vote for >whichever of the two final candidates is ranked highest by the >voter. The candidate with the most votes in the second round wins >the election. > >The threshold of victory of first?choice votes for a partisan >primary shall be forty percent (40%) plus one vote. The threshold of >victory for a nonpartisan election and runoff or nonpartisan primary >and election shall be a majority of the vote. The threshold of >victory in a contest that normally uses nonpartisan plurality shall >be determined by the State Board with the concurrence of the county >board of elections and the local governing board. > >If more than one seat is to be filled in the same race, the voter >votes the same way as if one seat were to be filled. The counting is >the same as when one seat is to be filled, with one or two rounds as >needed, except that counting is done separately for each seat to be >filled. The first counting results in the first winner. Then the >second count proceeds without the name of the first winner. This >process results in the second winner. For each additional seat to be >filled, an additional count is done without the names of the >candidates who have already won. -- /Jonathan Lundell. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
