Tag: condorcet-irv
Posted in Politics
Tagged condorcet, condorcet-irv, voting method
The August 16, 2022 special election for Alaska’s one and only seat in the U.S. House was notable for several reasons, including being the first time ranked-choice voting (RCV) was used to fill the seat. Students of voting methods have…
Posted by Dan Eckam Posted on August 22, 2017
Posted in Politics
Tagged condorcet, condorcet-irv, IRV, voting method
The Condorcet-IRV voting method is a combination of instant-runoff voting (IRV) and the Condorcet winner criterion. In order to explain it, we must first understand these two things. The idea of instant-runoff voting is that in an election between three…