Showing posts with label Instant Runoff Voting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Instant Runoff Voting. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Ranked Voting video
Hope I put in right size of video. Here is video of how Ranked Voting work in St. Paul which will make debut today. Sorry the video is not captioned for deaf people.
GET OUT AND VOTE! ELECTION DAY 2011
Today is Election Day in Cities such as St. Paul, St. Louis
Park, Inver Grove Heights and plenty of cities expect for Minneapolis. Wanted
to remind you to go out and vote.
You can always go to Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s Pollfinder
and it will tell you where you can go vote but for St. Paul residents, go to
Ramsey County Election page.
Last year Minneapolis was first city in Minnesota to do
Ranking Vote or Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). You can get more information on
IRV by clicking here. Only City Council election will be based on IRV when
school board election will be on regular ballot.
If you are St. Paul resident and tried IRV, let me know how it goes. Hope it is less confusing to some people.
Here is an example ballot and what it will look like during St. Paul Election when you go to poll. Here is link to a sample ballot for First Ward so you can get idea what it look like by clicking here.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Minneapolis begins counting of instant runoff ballots
by Madeleine Baran, Minnesota Public Radio
November 4, 2009
Minneapolis — Minneapolis elections officials started hand counting ballots Wednesday, a day after voters used instant runoff voting for the first time.
The count will determine the winner in a handful of races where no candidate received a majority of the first choice votes. Those races include two city council seats and five Park and Recreation board seats.
Elections staffers have to count all the ballots by hand, as there are no machines certified under federal or state law that can count instant runoff voting ballots.
But city officials expect the count will be finished sooner than the original Dec. 21 benchmark, due to low voter turnout.
About 46,000 Minneapolis residents voted Tuesday, representing about 21 percent of registered voters. Officials had planned for a turnout of about 70,000 voters.
Interim elections director Pat O'Connor said that although some results may be available within a few weeks, officials do not plan to rush the process.
"We would like this first count to go slowly so that people understand what ranked choice voting is all about," O'Connor said. "I think in our daily lives, we're used to computers doing the most incredibly complicated things, and we lose track of what really is happening inside that little box."
Elections officials count the instant runoff voting ballots in rounds. If no candidate has a majority of the first choice votes, then the candidate in last place is eliminated. If you voted for that candidate, your vote moves to your second choice. But if you don't have a second choice, then your vote stops counting in that race.
City council candidates in Ward Four and Ward Five fell just short of receiving a majority of votes. In Ward Four, Barbara Johnson received 46.9 percent of the vote. In Ward Five, Don Samuels leads with 47 percent.
About 250 elections staffers will count the ballots by ward, working in 125-person shifts, six days a week. O'Connor said the cost will be off-set by the savings from not having a primary.
November 4, 2009
Minneapolis — Minneapolis elections officials started hand counting ballots Wednesday, a day after voters used instant runoff voting for the first time.
The count will determine the winner in a handful of races where no candidate received a majority of the first choice votes. Those races include two city council seats and five Park and Recreation board seats.
Elections staffers have to count all the ballots by hand, as there are no machines certified under federal or state law that can count instant runoff voting ballots.
But city officials expect the count will be finished sooner than the original Dec. 21 benchmark, due to low voter turnout.
About 46,000 Minneapolis residents voted Tuesday, representing about 21 percent of registered voters. Officials had planned for a turnout of about 70,000 voters.
Interim elections director Pat O'Connor said that although some results may be available within a few weeks, officials do not plan to rush the process.
"We would like this first count to go slowly so that people understand what ranked choice voting is all about," O'Connor said. "I think in our daily lives, we're used to computers doing the most incredibly complicated things, and we lose track of what really is happening inside that little box."
Elections officials count the instant runoff voting ballots in rounds. If no candidate has a majority of the first choice votes, then the candidate in last place is eliminated. If you voted for that candidate, your vote moves to your second choice. But if you don't have a second choice, then your vote stops counting in that race.
City council candidates in Ward Four and Ward Five fell just short of receiving a majority of votes. In Ward Four, Barbara Johnson received 46.9 percent of the vote. In Ward Five, Don Samuels leads with 47 percent.
About 250 elections staffers will count the ballots by ward, working in 125-person shifts, six days a week. O'Connor said the cost will be off-set by the savings from not having a primary.
Instant runoff voting supporters' next stop: Duluth
by Curtis Gilbert, Minnesota Public Radio
November 4, 2009
St. Paul, Minn. — Supporters of instant runoff voting hope to bring the alternative voting system to Duluth next.
Minneapolis held its first instant runoff election yesterday, which saw low turnout but no major problems. St. Paul voters approved using IRV for city elections starting in 2011.
Fair Vote Minnesota executive director Jeanne Massey says her group wants to put an IRV referendum on the ballot in Duluth as soon as next year.
"There has been a strong organizing committee working very hard for the better part of a year or more and they thought maybe they might even put it on the ballot this year," Massey said. "But they wanted to see how the process would go in Minneapolis and St. Paul and then figure out what that would mean for Duluth."
Instant runoff lets voters rank the candidates for each office on the ballot in order of preference.
IRV opponents are taking their fight to court. They accuse Fair Vote of deceptive campaign practices in St. Paul and hope the Minnesota Supreme Court will reverse its finding earlier this year that IRV is constitutional.
November 4, 2009
St. Paul, Minn. — Supporters of instant runoff voting hope to bring the alternative voting system to Duluth next.
Minneapolis held its first instant runoff election yesterday, which saw low turnout but no major problems. St. Paul voters approved using IRV for city elections starting in 2011.
Fair Vote Minnesota executive director Jeanne Massey says her group wants to put an IRV referendum on the ballot in Duluth as soon as next year.
"There has been a strong organizing committee working very hard for the better part of a year or more and they thought maybe they might even put it on the ballot this year," Massey said. "But they wanted to see how the process would go in Minneapolis and St. Paul and then figure out what that would mean for Duluth."
Instant runoff lets voters rank the candidates for each office on the ballot in order of preference.
IRV opponents are taking their fight to court. They accuse Fair Vote of deceptive campaign practices in St. Paul and hope the Minnesota Supreme Court will reverse its finding earlier this year that IRV is constitutional.
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