Instant Runoff Voting Explained by Star Trek Captain

Instant Runoff Voting is quite simple, really...Just watch this video about Fizzbin a game mentioned in an episode of Star Trek. Star Ship Enterprise Captain James T. Kirk explains Fizzbin, and if you understand Fizzbin, you will have no trouble understanding instant runoff voting. The rules are quite simple, really, and its a mans game. It gets a little rough near the end of the video.....

...And like many reasons in support of IRV, it is made up, and in the end, just when you think you understand it, you get punched in the face.

You can read more about Fizzbin rules at this wikipedia article.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_in_Star_Trek#Fizzbin

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• Star Trek
• Instant Runoff
• Fizzbin

[robroy]

"Can I have a scoop of coffee ice cream?" "Sorry, we're out of coffee!" "Oh, in that case I'll have chocolate." See how easy that was. It is choice. You have different levels of preference for different candidates. That seems pretty easy to understand.

[DarthRaukrist]

blah blah blah blah blah "Spock, what are the odds?" blah blah blah blah blah, "OK, now PUNCH HM ON THE NOSE!"

XD old TV was perfect. it was just perfect.

[CommunityBuildersSB]

Instead of infringing on Paramount's copyright this way, why don't you just say, "I'm too dumb to understand ranking candidates based on order of preference"?

[DarthRaukrist]

Captain Kirk: I see your card games on motorcycles, and raise you card games in space.

Yu-gi-Oh: damnit. I'm harder to play than Pokemon, more childish than Magic the Gathering, and Star Trek did it first, and better. I really am the worst game ever invented.

[Walabio]

This video gets it.

[boardsailor]

Complete transparency. That's what IRV is all about - or something like that.

Aren't Fizzbin rules something like Voodoo Economics? Oh how I miss those "good ole days", LOL.

[vvactivist]

Having heard IRV advocates explain the many different derivations of IRV, this video hits the nail right on the head. It's like listening to Rob Richie himself explain how easy it is to vote and count the votes. And in the end - like Fizzbin - it's all a ruse to distract the rubes from the ulterior motives.

[foilhatter]

This must be what happened in Aspen Co's Instant Runoff Election. They used Fizzzbin rules to count. Actually, the company counting the votes mistakenly used Cambridge Rules, changing the outcome of the election. Fizzbin all over again.