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October 16, 2007
California governor "terminates" IRV
From Ballot Access News:
On October 14, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 1294, the bill to let all cities and counties use Instant-Runoff Voting for elections for their own officers.
On October 9, the voters of Cary, North Carolina used Instant-Runoff Voting for the first time, to elect city officers.
Is Instant Runoff Voting the cure for all electoral ills? Hardly. But towns and cities, if their people will it, should be able to try it out, at least.
The flip side of the coin (so to speak), as pointed in the article linked in the second post, is the apparent cost that governments must undertake to educate voters on the system. Perhaps Gov. Schwarzenegger had that in mind when he vetoed the bill. People, can we just learn about this thing on our own?
IRV sez: "I'll be back."
Elections | By joe lance | 09:36 PM