Minnesota Bills for Local Instant Runoff Voting

March 26th, 2009

Bills have been introduced in both houses of the Minnesota legislature to establish guidelines for use of Instant Runoff Voting by cities and other governmental units that may wish to use IRV to elect their own officers. They are SF 1820 and HF 2052.

2 Responses to “Minnesota Bills for Local Instant Runoff Voting”

  1. ETJB Says:
    March 27th, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Their is also some informal ‘discussions’ with some of the minor parties about working together on the time window allowed to circulate a nominating petition.

    Richard, you help on this discussion might be appreciated…

  2. Richard Says:
    March 27th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Minnesota’s petitioning window of only 2 weeks is easily the smallest petitioning window in the nation, for regularly-scheduled elections. The next smallest window is New York’s 6 weeks.