POL 140D Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Negative Campaigning, Instant-Runoff Voting, Don Perata
17 Sep 2016
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Backlash by many- 2010 oakland mayor rcv election: 1st round ballot counting: don perata 34% and jean quan 24% > but quan won the election . ?, but this is a reasonable outcome! Av/rcv in mmd multi-member districts (ireland and malta) No more than m candidates can win quota. It is the lowest vote total that guaranteed only m winners e. g. 50 votes and m=4 > (50/4+1)) +1= 11. 3. 2 votes > now b meets the quota and gets a seat: no wasted vote in this case, the last seat goes to c. In a case with more seats, candidates, and voters, transfers from the seat winners and those eliminated would continue until all seats were allocated. Not trying to create multiparty, but rather end one party dominance. Rcv is most common form of pr used at schools: uc davis- asucd. Higher m is good for female and minority representation.
