[Mpls] IRV

[Ken & Karla]

Earlier today (3/1), Bill Kahn wrote:

> I think the most popular and accepted version of IRV is where the choice with the least votes is dropped after the first talley and the vote is recalculated with the second choice of those voting for the dropped candidate. You could go several rounds until you had a clear mandate for one candidate, or in the case of a partisan primary, until you had a mandated candidate from each party on the ballot
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[KB]  That IS Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), although by "clear mandate", Mr. Kahn should have written a majority.  (A technical point:  Any other version is a different election method.)

A concise, clear explanation showing how IRV works is at the beginning of the page at http://www.fairvotemn.org/resources/tools/irvprimer_11142002.html , followed by a brief discussion of its merits and how it fits in Minnesota.

  -- K e n  B e a r m a n, Kingfield (still 11-1)