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Thanks to Ballot Access News for the tip.
(excerpt from) USA Today
Like Hollywood, U.S. should update its voting system
By Blair Bobier
Once upon a time, Hollywood cinematographers, disenchanted with black-and-white movies, embraced color film to more faithfully represent what they saw through the lenses of their cameras. Now Hollywood has taken an equally innovative step to represent the preferences of those who make the movies.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced that their Best Picture award will be determined by a voting system known as instant runoff voting (a kind of preference voting)…
Preference voting has found considerable support at the local level, where it can and has been used to replace runoff elections with a single election. San Francisco has been using this method since 2004 and several cities, including Oakland and Minneapolis, are poised to follow suit…
America is rapidly changing. Creating public policy for a diverse electorate requires voting methods that invite extensive citizen involvement and allow thoughtful consideration of a wide range of views and options.
Winner-take-all elections have their place, just as black-and-white films do — as a part of history. Welcome to the Technicolor age of voting.
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