Sentences with phrase «eliminate instant runoff»
On June 14, at noon, the Rules Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hear a proposal to eliminate Instant Runoff Voting for the city's executive position elections.
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Votes initially cast for eliminated candidates would go to the finalist in the instant runoff whom those voters ranked next on their ballots.
«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.
Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.
For single - member executive offices, LaVenia added, instant runoff voting where voters rank their choices in order of preference is a system that eliminates the incentives for lesser evil voting while insuring that the most preferred candidate is elected.
Unfortunately, instant runoff — just like plurality voting — also immediately eliminates the candidate who is everyone's second choice but nobody's first.
Under instant runoff voting in New York City, if no candidate receives 50 percent of first - choice votes, then the candidate who gets the least number of first - choice votes is eliminated.
Candidates with the smallest tally of first preference votes are eliminated (and their votes transferred as in instant runoff voting) until a candidate has more than half the vote.