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Very interesting. Apparently, Ann Arbor flirted with ranked voting back in the mid '70's. (For those of you who are going 'Hunh?' ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kickaha gives a very serviceable summary here)
Sounds like the Human Rights Party (a local far-left/~socialist party) got 'preferential voting' on the ballot, and it passed. Very similar to what Kickaha expounds upon, save:
You ranked your choices. Say, in a field of three candidates, you indicate your favorite as #1 (who gets three points), then #2 (who gets two points) and the least desirable as#3 (who gets one point). The total points are tallied for first choices only. If there's no clear winner, then the process tallied second choices, and so on.
A minor variation, but still very much in the scheme of ranked voting.
Ann Arbor voters agreed to this in... '75. They voted it back out in '77, unfortunately. Must needs do more research on this one. Hrmmm.
kickaha gives a very serviceable summary here)Sounds like the Human Rights Party (a local far-left/~socialist party) got 'preferential voting' on the ballot, and it passed. Very similar to what Kickaha expounds upon, save:
You ranked your choices. Say, in a field of three candidates, you indicate your favorite as #1 (who gets three points), then #2 (who gets two points) and the least desirable as#3 (who gets one point). The total points are tallied for first choices only. If there's no clear winner, then the process tallied second choices, and so on.
A minor variation, but still very much in the scheme of ranked voting.
Ann Arbor voters agreed to this in... '75. They voted it back out in '77, unfortunately. Must needs do more research on this one. Hrmmm.
