Instant Runoff Elections for Oklahoma
R. Darcy · 2016
Instant runoff ballots record all the voter's preferences rather than just the first as do current ballots. As such, instant nmoff ballots can be used to avoid choosing winners through system quirks. Further, the instant nmoff allows eliminating the cost and bother of runoff elections. Opportunities for, and obstacles against, Oklahoma using the instant runoff in municipal and other Oklahoma electi.ons are explored. In the nineteenth century the Hare system or the single transferrable vote, a proportional representation voting system, was developed in Europe and quickly spread to Australia where it came to be known as the Hare-Clark system (Farrell, 2001). Ballots using the system require voters to number their flrst, second and subsequent choices among candidates rather than to just pick one candidate as is typical in the United States. The system's purpose was to achieve proportional