Video: How instant runoff voting works with multiple winners

by Curtis Gilbert, Minnesota Public Radio,
Molly Bloom, Minnesota Public Radio

St. Paul, Minn. — When you apply instant runoff voting to an election with multiple winners, things get complicated.

Voters still rank their top choices, but figuring out the winners requires long division.

Minneapolis elections officials will have to use math like this to figure out who will sit on its Park Board and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.

The vote counting, which must be done by hand, is expected to take weeks.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, 10/22/2009, 5:25 p.m.