Advances for IRV
- Maine
adopts legislation to fund study on IRV:
This spring Maine's governor signed LD 212, a resolution requiring the
Secretary of State to study the feasibility of using IRV in Maine elections.
(June 3, 2004)
- Washington
State initiative for IRV launched: Instant
Runoff Washington
has formed to collect signatures in 2004 for action in 2005. (April 29,
2004)
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Minnesota Independence Party,
under which Jesse Ventura served as governor, used IRV in its party caucuses
this month, electing John Edwards in a close vote. (March 10, 2004)
- Successful first IRV election in
Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea, a nation of five
million people near Australia, has re-instituted instant runoff
voting after a perception that plurality voting was polarizing the
nation's politics. In the first use of
IRV in a special election
,voter error
rate was lower than in American presidential elections (December 12,
2003)
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Nationally Known Secretary of State Recommends
IRV: Arkansas Secretary of State Sharon Priest
, chair of
the Arkansas State Election Improvement Study Commission and
former president of the National Association of Secretaries of
State, recommends instant runoff voting for judicial elections.
- San
Francisco
adopts IRV for major offices in March 2002 ballot
measure and will implement it in November 2003 mayoral election.
- Information about the dramatic rise in support for adopting IRV
in Vermont, including a sweep of town meeting votes and a
new round of endorsements.
- Utah Republicans
use IRV to nominate candidates for
Congress at
their May 2002 state convention. Read Utah Attorney General Mark
Shurtleff's Statement of support.
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Louisiana uses IRV for some
overseas absentee ballots.
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Colleges
adopt IRV for student elections
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