Content Categorized with "Instant Runoff Voting"
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And the Winner Is...
- Posted: September 2, 2009
- Author(s): Blair Bobier
- Publication: The Political Reform Blog
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
New America's Blair Bobier makes the case that if the Motion Picture Academy can see the wisdom of IRV, so should the state of California as it considers changing to the "top two" primary system. -
And the Oscar for best voting system goes to . . . IRV!
- Posted: September 2, 2009
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science will use instant runoff voting to award the Oscar for Best Picture in 2010, ensuring that the most celebrated movie of the year is one with strong support among Academy members.
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Motion Picture Academy Adopts Instant Runoff Voting for Best Picture
- Posted: September 1, 2009
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science announced this week that it will use instant runoff voting to choose its honoree for Best Picture, ensuring that the most celebrated movie of the year is one with strong support among Academy members. Used by the Academy in Best Picture voting before 1945, which was the last time ten pictures were nominated,instant runoff voting (IRV) is a system in which voters rank their preferences in order of choice. The nominee with the fewest votes is eliminated, and ballots cast for that film are moved to voter's next choice among the remaining films. The process continues until one film has more than half the votes and is declared Best Picture of the Year.
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Catching Errors in Aspen
- Posted: August 18, 2009
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting
Our senior analyst Terry Bouricius has just authored a report on the accuracy of the ballot counting in Aspen's municipal elections this year.
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Utilitarianism, ctd.
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IRV and the Utilitarian in Me
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Massachusetts Reformers Launch Campaign for Statewide IRV
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Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny
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Candy Saves Democracy
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Ranked-choice voting a better fit for today's elections
- Posted: July 24, 2009
- Author(s): Jeanne Massey
- Publication: MPR News
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
FairVote Minnesota's Jeanne Massey explains how the adoption of IRV in Minneapolis is a much needed and welcome change in light of the current political climate, and hopes that it will be the springboard for movement towards IRV in the entire state.