After a period of uncertainty while the judges were doing their thing, Instant Runoff Voting [IRV] has been cleared for use in the Minneapolis elections this year.
If you have read my earlier posts, you probably know that I am not ready to sign on the IRV bandwagon yet. But, even though we have learned that SO many of our fellow citizens have difficulty filling out a ballot the way we have them now, I am quite willing to let the city upriver give it a try. And I wonder how many people over there will need to learn how to cast a proper ballot all over again in next year’s general election.
Now it seems likely that we will be voting this year on whether we want IRV for ourselves.
But might it not be better to see how Mpls. gets through its first try with the system first?
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