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FairVote executive director Rob Ritchie on Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) listen

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Tags: Instant Runoff Voting, IRV, Fairvote.org, Rob Ritchie, Ranked Choice Voting, RCV

The topic of today’s Last Call was Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), also known as Ranked Candidate Voting, which voting reform advocates believe could help remedy a scenario we’ve all experienced and that is casting a vote for the “lesser of two evils” rather than your candidate of choice.

IRV is used when there are more than two candidates in a race, and is designed to help ensure a true majority wins and eliminate the "spoiler" effect that sometimes o...