Mark X for first choice candidate. Mark a second X for second choice candidate. If your first candidate gets knocked out your vote transfers to your second candidate - style of thing?
If so, then, yeah, it's like Instant Run-Off voting but less nuanced. It's used for London Mayoral elections and I think might be the standard for other unitary Mayors in England.
As a political geek / activist there is really no need for it to exist except to delay the day when we have a Green major of London. In many ways involving maths it it worse than Instant Run-Off because the tactical voting is three dimensional and requires time to run backwards.
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Date: 2019-04-22 08:38 am (UTC)Mark X for first choice candidate. Mark a second X for second choice candidate. If your first candidate gets knocked out your vote transfers to your second candidate - style of thing?
If so, then, yeah, it's like Instant Run-Off voting but less nuanced. It's used for London Mayoral elections and I think might be the standard for other unitary Mayors in England.
As a political geek / activist there is really no need for it to exist except to delay the day when we have a Green major of London. In many ways involving maths it it worse than Instant Run-Off because the tactical voting is three dimensional and requires time to run backwards.