As further evidence that the political tide is, indeed turning, consider that tomorrow’s Minneapolis StarTribune carries an editorial endorsing instant runoff voting as a solution to political activists running sham campaigns to pull votes from the opposition:
“What the problem cries out for is Minnesota’s adoption of an instant-runoff-election procedure. That way, voters from the Green Party or Independence Party or Socialist Workers Party can vote their conscience without fear of tipping the election to the candidate most opposite their views.
“Here’s how it works: A voter casts a ballot that ranks candidates by order of preference. So a Green voter might signal that her first preference is the Green candidate, second preference the DFL candidate, third preference the Republican candidate. If no candidate has an absolute majority, votes for the trailing candidates are reassigned to those voters’ second choices. The process continues until one candidate has a majority of the votes cast.”
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