Instant runoff voting in Australia: Guest blog from Ben Raue
June 17th, 2009
Recently I was in correspondence with Ben Raue, a former candidate with the Australian Greens who maintains The Tally Room, a valuable blog about international politics. I had an exchange with him about the role of instant runoff voting and choice voting in his country’s politics, and he sent me this note, with permission to post it. For those of you who don’t know, Australia uses instant runoff voting — what we call “preferential voting” — to elect the lower houses of the state parliamen
