[geeks] California Proposition 14

[Dave Fischer]

adh at an.bradford.ma.us writes:

>i've been toying with an idea that afaics has only theoretical value.
>today we blow our vote only on the candidate we like best, but suppose
>we were allowed to rank our choices?  eg. #1-#5 for a 5-candidate
>field...  my idea is that if the leading candidates are highly
>polarizing, half the voters might rank candidate a #1 and b #2, while
>the other half might rank candidate c #1 and b #2.  b should win the
>race as the candidate more agreeable to more voters, but in our
>present system he'd receive no votes at all.

Similar to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

Which works very well.

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