FairVote's new IRV Flash animation

by Jack Santucci // Published October 20, 2006
FairVote has just released the latest in an autumn string of high-quality Flash presentations expaining IRV.

You can view this one and get links to the others - Pierce County's "I Love IRV," Minneapolis' "Elect-a-Date," and classics like San Francisco's "Easy as 1-2-3" and Chris Gates' IRV how-to - at our IRV Flash Animation page.

Stay tuned for our animation on choice voting.

[More PowerPoints and animations from the online version of our ranked choice CD-ROM toolkit]

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  • We have quite a bit on our MMD proposals at fairvote.org/superdistricts. Most of the plans call for 5-seat districts. I don't think it's unreasonable to go with 3-seat districts, for that matter. Another proposal we're thinking about would call for a certain proportion of "accountability seats" to correct for disproportion in the SMD tier. (Yep - state-based MMP.)

    Posted by Jack, 2006-10-31 14:36:47 (7 years ago)

  • I'm excited to hear about the upcoming choice voting animation. Multi-member districts could be a great way to help combat gerrymandering and make elections more competitive and interesting. We might start out drawing districts with only a few seats, for simplicity's sake. But as voters became accustomed to choice voting, we could later shift toward superdistricts with large numbers of seats. Depending on the number of seats per district, voters could be faced with dozens of candidates. But a variety of interest groups would, no doubt, issue sample ballots suggesting which candidates voters should rank highest. Voters could pick any number of criteria on which to base their rankings - not just party affiliation. In this age of computers, citizens might even use software to help them pick the rankings that make the most sense for them. Choice voting has so many advantages. In addition to helping eliminate the "spoiler factor," it also helps prevent surplus votes from being wasted. Once a candidate gets enough votes to mathematically be assured of victory, any extra votes for him are redistributed to his supporters' second or third choices. All in all, it's one of the best voting systems aronud.

    Posted by Nathan Larson, 2006-10-31 13:52:46 (7 years ago)