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Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) has been on my mind ever since the 2000 election. I think it's probably the best solution to some of our political woes in this country. It will allow other parties to get involved in American politics and give voters true choices. Barack Obama is a supporter of IRV as is Howard Dean.
Help me spread the word about it. If anyone is interested we can try to get the UGA student body government to implement it as an example to the city of Athens. It's a great way to draw attention to it, as the media will cover such an occurrence. The big push among IRV supporters is on the local level. A bottom up strategy. It's been implemented around the country.
Here's a good Flash demo of how it works.
http://www.chrisgates.net/irv/votesequence.html
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Instant runoff voting (IRV) is an important pro-democracy reform. My own city of Burlington (VT) uses it and it works great. Our first IRV election in 2006 had higher voter turnout, fully 99.9% of ballots cast in the IRV race were valid, and exit polls showed voters overwhelmingly preferred IRV to the former election method. By eliminating the "spoiler" concern in that election IRV allowed bvoters to honestly rank the candidates in the order of their true preference, and with three major candidates and two minor candidates we had a good fair election. Folks who want to learn more can visit http://www.fairvote.org
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