After a push to allow instant runoff voting in South Carolina, one state representative from the Lowcountry is warning against the highly debated election method.

Election reform is necessary, but instant runoff voting is the most important first step.

Currently in the S.C. House Judiciary Committee, it would allow municipalities to use instant-runoff voting as one of four election methods.

Note that instant-runoff voting (indeed, all the ranked-choice methods), approval voting, STAR voting, Condorcet (and substantially all other advocated methods) have this same problem: They do not ...

Instant Runoff Voting: The idea the coalition is pitching to Idaho: a top four non-partisan primary election.

Denver’s crowded mayoral election earlier this month and the pre-planned runoff in June have prompted a new push to implement ranked-choice voting in future city elections.

The most popular form of RCV is known as instant-runoff voting, which has been tested in several states, most notably Alaska. This method of ranked choice vote counting operates normally on the ...

(TNS) — Denver’s crowded mayoral election earlier this month and the pre-planned runoff in June have prompted a new push to implement ranked-choice voting in future city elections. Just one ...

What is ranked choice voting? Ranked choice voting, also known as instant runoff voting, allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference. Instead of making one selection, voters can list ...

Unlike instant runoff and Condorcet methods, plurality is not actually a ranked choice voting scheme. In fact, it’s the most common voting method in the U.S.: whoever gains the most first-choice ...

To illustrate his point, Parry presented the results of Sandy's 2021 mayoral race, which used ranked choice voting via the instant runoff voting method.