Instant runoff voting proponents hail high court’s decision

A group promoting instant runoff voting (IRV) in Minnesota lauded the state Supreme Court today for its decision to expedite and accelerate the appeal of a case against IRV.

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1. Anonymous Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 9:26 am

   It is a myth that Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) elects majority winners.
   Sounds good if you only think about it for 1 minute,
   but it is false. A recent spectacular failure of
   that myth was in the 2009 Burlington Vermont RV election. Details here:
   http://RangeVoting.org/Burlington.html
   This same election also demonstrates IRV spoilers (debunking the
   myth IRV “cures the spoiler problem”) and “non-monotonicity”:
   Kiss won, but if anti-Kiss voters had switched their votes to Kiss, that would
   have made him lose. (!!) This debunks the myth non-monotonicity
   is exceedingly rare. I have to ask why it is that IRV proponents
   need to rely on myths and lies to make their case.

2. Anonymous Says:
   March 23rd, 2009 at 7:28 am

   The reason we have to rely on myths is to debunk them. The difference between non-monotonicity in a runoff election and in an instant runoff election is that, in IRV, the voters can’t change their votes based upon the outcome. So, proving your point with theoretical mathematics that exactly a certain number of voters could change their votes in a certain way is laughable.