One Person, One Vote!
North Carolina IRV election - Court of Appeals
In 2010, North Carolina used Instant Runoff Voting for a seat of the Court of Appeals. There were many problems with IRV, from taking 7 weeks to get the results to counting errors and hundreds of thousands of ballots thrown out.
In 2013, the State Legislature repealed IRV. Here's a few of the News Headlines after the IRV election:
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The Odd IRV numbers
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State should rethink instant runoff voting
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It's over... probably
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"Instant Runoff Voting" loses its appeal when put to the test
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Weak defense of IRV
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Instant runoff voting runs into issues - that was one ugly way to elect a judge.
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Editorial: Instant runoff failure
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McCullough leads in Court of Appeals Race, turnaround due to counting error
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Instant Runoff fiasco
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Who will be more confused, voters or election officials?
Hundreds of thousands of ballots thrown out.
The Odd IRV numbers: - "I think we've seen the last of IRV voting in North Carolina," State Board of Elections Executive Director Gary Bartlett told me this week." - The raw vote totals include about a quarter-million votes that were tossed out in the second round of counting."
State should rethink instant runoff voting: - "IRV is confusing, not transparent, disenfranchises voter groups and can produce unintended outcomes. Isn't it time, we went back to “one man, one vote?”
"Instant Runoff Voting" loses its appeal when put to the test: - "In the IRV, I am disenfranchised from the runoff vote since my vote is set aside after the initial primary counts. I know of no other election process where a voter is prohibited from voting in a runoff simply because he/she voted for one of the remaining top two candidates.”
Weak defense of IRV: - "But it's worse than that, because IRV effectively excludes a high proportion of voters from this runoff. ”