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...much of an improvement as fusion voting will be, there is a better alternative: instant-runoff voting (which is also known as ranked choice voting, Hare-Clark proportional voting, and several other names). A more radical electoral change than fusion voting, instant-runoff voting (IRV) will enable voters to rank candidates instead of voting for just one. After an instant-runoff election, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated from contention, and the voters who voted for this candidate have their second-choice votes redistributed to the remaining candidates. The process of elimination and redistribution continues until...
Unlike fusion voting, which will provide much more of a boost to third parties than third-party candidates, IRV will allow voters who would rather support lesser-known candidates to not have to settle for a candidate too moderate or extreme for their tastes. Instead, they could cast their first vote for the minority candidate but still have their second, mainstream choice count...
Threatt keeps them in it (and prevents a cover), but Lehigh can’t curb the Irv...
...differently. It’s a proud moment for a parent.” Although many of the players and parents considered Fenway an integral part of their youth, others were visiting the oldest park in baseball for the first time. Sophomore Matt Kramer’s grandfather, Irv Kramer, a St. Louis resident, was at Fenway for the first time with his son, a Harvard grad. “This is a great ballpark,” Kramer said. “It’s beautiful and it’s fantastic to be here...
...hope is that once those "stem-defining" proteins are identified, they might be used as targets for drug therapies that could lead to better cancer treatments. Irv Weissman, the developmental biologist at Stanford University who first isolated the blood-forming stem cell, is working on pinpointing just such a suite of proteins for leukemia...