Instant Runoff Voting Links

Descriptions of IRV

• On-Line Instant Runoff Voting Election About Movies:

  Alternet provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism. On February 14th it launched an on-line vote using instant runoff voting on "the Alties," described as "movie awards for the rest of us."  It also posted a new article on IRV by Rob Richie and Steven Hill
• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe document on the reasons for the adoption of preferential voting in Bosnia/Herzegovinia.
• Sample page from the ACE project focused on use of preferential voting overseas.  Also see some of the pages linked from this page.
• Moving graphics that show an IRV count.
• Sample count from MIT's use of IRV. More information about elections available from [email protected]
• A Presbyterian church site in Australia explaining and praising preferential voting.
• Leaflets on voting methods, including IRV (referred to here as "the alternative vote") from the Electoral Reform Society.
• Pages describing why Papua New Guinea has decided to restore preferential voting for the June 2002 elections after abandoning it in the 1960s -- key being the winners will now reach out beyond their immediate base and better represent their constituency. Dr. Ben Reilly played a key role, as deailed in the page from the Australian National Univeristy. Supporters of the change included Caritas, The Justice, Peace and Development Agency of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea.

Use of IRV for Private Elections (mostly in US)

• The National Youth Rights Association uses IRV to elect its board members.
• The Massachussetts Institute of Technology uses IRV to elect its student council president and the choice voting method of proportional representation to elect its undergraduate student government.
• The University of California at Berkeley uses IRV to and a choice voting system to elect their officers. Their voting procedures are outlined in Article VII, Section 5 of their Constitution.
• The Vassar College Student Government  Association adopted IRV in 2003 to elect their council representatives. 
• The Chaine des Rotisseurs, Bailliage des Etats-Unis unites professional and amateur gastronomes in a private, not-for-profit society committed to promoting the culinary and hospitality arts and enology through example, education and camaraderie. It recently adopted preferential voting.
• IRV used to elect Hugo Award winners  (one of two leading science fiction awards). Includes the count of the most recent election.
• The American Psychological Association: With more than 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide and uses both IRV and choice-voting to elect its officers and board members.
• The American Political Scince Association (APSA): With more than 14,000 members residing in over 70 countries worldwide, the American Political Science Association is the world's largest professional organization for the study of politics.
• The American Philological Association: Founded in 1869, the American Philological Association (APA) is the principal learned society for Classical Studies in North America. Its by-laws spell out using preferential voting to elect its president.
• The Consortium of College and Media Centers uses preferential voting for its elections (see page 10 of this .pdf document).
• The Hugo Science Fiction Awards, also known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award, is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society uses IRV. 
• Each year, The Campbell Science Fiction Award is given to the best new science fiction writer. 
• The Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in college football, utilizes a ranked point system to choose the recipient. 
• NCAA basketball uses a weighted ranked choice system for conference awards. 
• Pacifica Radio: Bringing listeners, alternative, free speech community listener sponsored radio for over fifty years. 
• Statute for both IRV and STV (.pdf) at Southern Cross University, a British school.
• IRV election results from the House of Representatives elections in Australia.The NGO and Academic ICANN Study (NAIS) is an international project to review the nature of public representation in the Internet's domain name management organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It said that more voter education should be done on IRV, but suggested a major value derived from the incentive it created for winners to build cross-national coalitions -- most voters ranked someone from their own country first.
• Adminstrator describes ICANN's election held with IRV
• Online IRV Poll  On this site you can vote in a sample poll using IRV or create your own IRV poll for your website.
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IRV In Practice

     Australia

• Helpful analysis of Australia in the wake of the 2001 elections.
• Transcript of discussion this year on the value of optional rankings versus Australia's current compulsory rankings.
• Australian Election Commission home page
• Site for ex-patriate Australians; here the author defends IRV.

      Bosnia

• Discussion of the use of IRV in Bosnia/Herzegovinia

      England

• The London Mayor's Race: a short report on the first IRV electionfor mayor of London and media coverage of the race by the Center's staff. May, 2000.
   

Other

• Resolution in favor of IRV (.doc) from Alaska Independent Party (the one that elected a governor in 1990 and whose candidate won some 20% in 1994)
• Albert Wheeler, Ann Arbor's IRV mayor
• Article on new group in Canada promoting IRV
• Descriptions of three main preferential voting systems compared to plurality voting
• Alternative single winner systems: Brief descriptions of several single-winner systems.
• Approval Voting: Compared to IRV.
  
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