Instant-Runoff Ranked-Choice Voting Elects Wrong Winner in Alaska
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Alaska recently started using an alternative voting system that is commonly called Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV). This is a bit of a misnomer; the better term is Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV). I’ll explain this more in a subsequent post; for now, just be aware that they’re the same thing, but I will call it IRV. If you’re unfamiliar with it, there’s lots of information on the Web, but in a nutshell, it asks voters to rank the candidates in order of decreasing preference, and then applies a somewhat complex ballot tabulation procedure, which I’ll explain with an example below.
Instant-Runoff Ranked-Choice Voting Elects Wrong Winner in Alaska
Instant-Runoff Ranked-Choice Voting Elects…
Instant-Runoff Ranked-Choice Voting Elects Wrong Winner in Alaska
Alaska recently started using an alternative voting system that is commonly called Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV). This is a bit of a misnomer; the better term is Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV). I’ll explain this more in a subsequent post; for now, just be aware that they’re the same thing, but I will call it IRV. If you’re unfamiliar with it, there’s lots of information on the Web, but in a nutshell, it asks voters to rank the candidates in order of decreasing preference, and then applies a somewhat complex ballot tabulation procedure, which I’ll explain with an example below.