On April 19, the San Leandro, California, city council voted 5-2 to use Instant Runoff Voting this year. That makes three cities in Alameda County who will be using it this year for city elections. The other two are Berkeley and Oakland.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
IRV = THE method to elect Stalin/Hitler clones by ignoring most of the data in a Place Votes Table.
P.R. and A.V.
IRV tends to elect extreme right or left candidates and eliminate majority favorite centrist candidates whenever there are 3 strong candidates in the contest. IRV is the only alternative electoral method that fails more of Arrow’s Fairness Criteria than plurality voting because IRV does not solve the spoiler problem and is nonmonotonic, removes the voter’s right to cast a vote that helps, rather than hurts a candidate’s chances to win. Burlington, VT and Aspen, CO voters were smart enough to reject IRV after trying it once, but the powers-that-be in Aspen are refusing so far to honor the voters’ wishes.
Sigh. I’m sure they’ll repeal it in a year or two, just like
Aspen CO
Burlington VT
Pierce County WA
etc.