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Instant Runoff Voting Instant runoff voting is a means of allowing more candidates on America's ballots while insuring that the candidate with the most support prevails. It saves time and the huge expense of holding runoff elections when one candidate does not carry a clear majority. Voters rank candidates in order of choice: 1, 2, 3 and so on. It takes a majority to win. If anyone receives a majority of the first choice votes, that candidate is elected. If not, the last place candidate is defeated, just as in a runoff election, and all ballots are counted again, but this time each ballot cast for the defeated candidate counts for the next choice candidate listed on the ballot. The process of eliminating the last place candidate and recounting the ballots continues until one candidate receives a majority of the vote. With modern voting equipment, all of the counting and recounting takes place rapidly and automatically. Courts have held this form of voting to be constitutional and many voters prefer it, seeing it as a fairer guage of their wishes. Many states already employ IRV. More info can be found here: Get active: As long as we are talking about voting, inform yourself about the pitfalls of electronic voting: ...Systems that are vulnerable to computer hacking of election code, and hardware boasting nothing in the way of verifiable ballot counts, we're looking at a significant issue - one that goes directly to the sanctity of the American vote. www.ruminatethis.com/archives/001660.html Electronic voting machine manufacturer Diebold knowingly sold insecure
voting equipment to states and also violated federal law by making changes
to the sofware after certification. Diebold is currently on a mission
to block this information from becoming public knowledge. Find it here: web.umr.edu/~gabriels/diebold.html
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