Reply #68: It will be neverending until IRV is introduced [View All]

[scottxyz]

IRV = Instant Runoff Voting

Instead of voting for a single candidate, you rank them in order. If nobody gets a clear majority, you add in voters' second choice, third choice, until someone wins.

For example, in 2000 a Green could have voted:

My 1ST choice : Nader
My 2ND choice : Gore

When hell freezes over : Bush


This way, if Nader didn't get a majority, all his votes would go to Gore. This allows the voters to "express" their intentions more clearly. Rather than a vote for Nader automatically helping Bush, a vote for Nader would either have helped Nader get elected, or helped Gore.

Several other countries already have implemented IRV.