The same vote-counting mistake being made on American Idol voting is creeping into government elections in places like San Francisco (CA), Burlington (VT), and Aspen (CO) where a voting method named “instant runoff voting†(abbreviated IRV) is used. The IRV method is based on the mistaken belief that the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is the least popular. The method has produced clearly unfair results, especially in Burlington and Aspen, so the method has been repealed in those places. The instant-runoff-voting method correctly uses 1-2-3 ballots, but it also uses an unfair counting method based on thinking that the choice with the fewest votes is least popular. It's crazy for American Idol to use the same unfair counting method that also fails to produce fair results in government elections.
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