10Questions: Rank the Choices

Overall, the response by the candidates to the 10Questions experiment was shameful. Only Mike Huckabee, to his everlasting credit, responded right away. Beyond that, only Edwards, Gravel, and Obama (via clips form campaign questions) answered by the deadline. No others responded, despite 3 reminders (!) on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times! If [...]

Shortcomings of Instant Runoff Voting

Dave Farber’s Interesting People list recently carried a brief article by the computer scientist Stephen Unger, warning about the shortcomings of Instant Runoff Voting.
As Unger points out:

… while IRV does work as advertised in some important situations, there are also situations in which it produces bizarre results. For example, there are cases where a [...]

One of the better videos

YouTube has several videos about Instant Runoff Voting (which many proponents also call Ranked Voting).
Here’s one that’s succinct and reasonably entertaining.