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INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING; RIGHT OUT OF ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER
Fair Vote - Robert's Rules of Order has been the basis for dozens of major private associations and more than fifty colleges and universities choosing to elect officers with instant runoff voting . RRO clearly spells out the rules for an instant runoff elections, to the point that association bylaws often simply say "officers shall be elected by preferential voting as detailed in Robert's Rules of Order."
RRO recommends IRV (which it calls "preferential voting") when association members aren't all in the same place and able to engage in repeated balloting.
Associations electing top officers with IRV (some of which have very hotly contested elections) include: the American Association of University Women (approximately 100,000 members), American Chemical Society (the world's largest scientific society), American Medical Student Association (oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States), American Mensa (more than 50,000 members), American Political Science Association (the leading professional organization for the study of political science, with more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries); American Psychiatric Association (more than 38,000 members worldwide); American Psychological Association (approximately 150,000 members)
And that's just one's that start with the letter A. A more complete list
Universities and colleges that use IRV for student government elections
RRO recommends IRV (which it calls "preferential voting") when association members aren't all in the same place and able to engage in repeated balloting.
Associations electing top officers with IRV (some of which have very hotly contested elections) include: the American Association of University Women (approximately 100,000 members), American Chemical Society (the world's largest scientific society), American Medical Student Association (oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States), American Mensa (more than 50,000 members), American Political Science Association (the leading professional organization for the study of political science, with more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries); American Psychiatric Association (more than 38,000 members worldwide); American Psychological Association (approximately 150,000 members)
And that's just one's that start with the letter A. A more complete list
Universities and colleges that use IRV for student government elections
1 Comments:
While it's true that Robert describes one possible method of preferential voting, it is presented only as an example to illustrate the basic concept, not as a definition or recommendation.
Robert then goes on to say that, "[w]hen this or any other system of preferential voting is to be used, the voting and counting procedure must be precisely established in advance and should be prescribed in detail in the bylaws of the organization." RONR p. 413
By no means is it proper for an organization's bylaws simply to prescribe "preferential voting as described in Robert's Rules of Order." The members of an association whose bylaws contain that wording should amend them to provide more detail.
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