Forwarded by Jeanne Massey from Tony Solgard: As I see it, the way to use IRV in the endorsement process (with a 60 percent supermajority requirement) is to use the instant runoff mechanism on the first ballot to narrow the field to two candidates. If this results in a candidate with 60 percent support, then you�ve got a first ballot endorsement. If not, the convention proceeds to a second ballot with those same two candidates and continues as DFL conventions normally do. �Normal� usually involves a rules negotiation over the number of ballots that must be taken before either a vote for �no endorsement� or for adjournment is in order. So, the convention doesn�t have to endorse if it doesn�t want to. And the convention still has the option of pushing a 55 percent candidate over the 60 percent threshold on the next ballot. But the process is expedited so you don�t have to sit through 6 ballots when you could condense the process into just one ballot or two ballots and come to the same outcome.
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