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Final Report of the Vermont Commission to Study Instant Runoff Voting

Presented to the Vermont House of Representatives pursuant to H.R. 37

January 1999

THIS IS A VERBATIM COPY OF THIS INFLUENTIAL VERMONT REPORT, except that we at the Center for Range Voting are adding CORRECTIONS of ERRORS in this report. You can reach the corrections to each section by clicking the link entitled (corrections). There are a vast number of false and misleading statements in this report and it would be a big job to find them all. As we find them, we are converting them to green color on which you can click to reach the correction. We have barely begun that task but we have at least corrected the errors in the Executive Summary. (And in some cases a statement in the report is true but only because it is very very artfully worded... a fact which suggests an intentional plan of deception by its authors.)

Table of Contents

Introduction. Committee Members

Section 1. Executive Summary (corrections)

Section 2. Recommendations

Section 3. The Problem IRV Solves

Section 4. Discussion:

Section 5. Areas for further study

Appendix A. House Resolution 37
Appendix B. Summary of H.665, 1998 IRV Bill
Appendix C. History of Vermont Voting Systems
Appendix D. The History of Vermont Elections Without a Majority
Part 1. Election of State Officers
Part 2. Election of U.S. Congressional Representatives.

Conclusion

Appendix E. History of Instant Runoff Voting.
Appendix F. Mock IRV Elections in Vermont Schools
Chart 2. Mock IRV Election Evaluation Results
Appendix G. Sample IRV ballots.

Glossary of Terms

(corrections)