MPR News: Instant Runoff Voting Explained
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On Tuesday, Nov. 8, St. Paul, Minn. will hold its first instant runoff voting election. Minneapolis started using IRV (aka ranked choice voting) in 2009. MPR's Curtis Gilbert and Molly Bloom explain how the new system works.
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wonderful.
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I love this video. What a great explanation.
(video is a little dark and the intro is too long, but otherwise, A+)
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Can you add "alternative vote" to the tags so that people in the UK find this?
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@SilentScreamvideos No probs :) It's not just when it's close either, say 30% voted blue, 25% voted purple, 22% voted yellow and 23% voted pink- they all voted for their favourites, but the purple yellow and pink voters all really hate blue.If we just went with the 1st choice (the First Past The Post system) blue would win even though 70% are anti-blue and would prefer ANY other to win.So this system goes for a result the majority of voters support,it's not always the leader after the 1st choice
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@cactustactics Alright, I get it now. I didn't think about the possibility of it being that close. Alright.
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Great video by the way, the stack of sticky notes is a fantastic visual to describe what's happening. We're having a referendum in Britain on using this system in national elections, so I might end up using it to help explain it to people. Thanks!
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@SilentScreamvideos What if purple got 10,000,000 votes and pink got 10,000,001,and a few other million people voted some other way?Is it fair to say "everyone likes pink more than purple" at this point, ignoring the opinions of the other millions of people who had some other first choice but probably have a preference between purple and pink?What if those millions of people all happen to like purple better? Isn't it fairer to find out, instead of saying 'sorry shouldn't have said you like blue'
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This isn't a GREAT example because purple would win if was most and it won majority too. Better example would be a candidate losing in first round and winning in the second round.
wikichris 10 months ago 5
brilliant. would make me feel like my vote counted more, it would allow for more than two candidates to have a chance, and it would help fight the terrible polarity and winner-take-all effect of the current system.
trentlobdell 3 months ago 2