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How Instant Runoff Voting works 2.0: Multiple winners

Video by: Curtis Gilbert and Molly Bloom When you apply Instant Runoff Voting to an election with multiple winners, things get complicated. Voters still rank their choices 1, 2, 3, etc., but fig...  
 
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GopherMPH (3 months ago) Show Hide
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this is brilliant. The single-winner made sense anyway. *this*, however, is finally a visualization I understand. Although the fractions are admittedly strange.

I feel better able to explain this to someone else.

Go send this to all of the other people you know in ST PAUL! Make sure they understand what they are voting for.
NemoUtopian (3 months ago) Show Hide
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How does one get a copy of this and the other on for one position? This is the best short and sweet demonstration of this that I have yet seen. Postinotes! Pure Genious.
ButterflyDragon9 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Scary stuff. Imagine what would have happened with this type of voting procedure for the 1992 presidential election.
ironic1 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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This is a great explanation! Thanks!
XaintMP (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Interesting...

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