Beyond Instant Runoff: Better Multi-Candidate Elections

Merging Condorcet’s and Borda’s ideas creates an election method better than instant runoff | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

By Christoph Borgers, Professor of Mathematics, Tufts University. A vote is cast in New Hampshire 2012 primary. AP Photo/Matt Rourke Last November, Maine voters approved, by a slim majority, a ballot initiative to adopt a voting system called “instant runoff.” This system has been proposed as an alternative to our traditional election method – called “plurality…