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.
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Curtis Gilbert
• ReporterCurtis Gilbert covers the Twin Cities as a member of the MPR News metro reporting unit.
Molly Bloom
• Analyst, Public Insight JournalismMolly Bloom is the Public Insight Analyst for MPR News.
