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Hawaii: Honolulu City Council: No Instant Runo Voting |

Honolulu Civil Beat
Apr 22 2011 The Voting News
Un-American, ill-advised and expensive. The Honolulu City Council has a long list of reasons as to
why state lawmakers ought to kill a move meant to improve its current voting system.
Council members on Wednesday passed a resolution urging state lawmakers not to pass House Bill
638, which would bring instant runoff voting to Honolulu and other counties. The measure is two steps
away from passing with state representatives set to discuss it in a conference committee Thursday
morning.
Instant runoff voting allows voters to rank their candidates by preference instead of choosing a single
candidate. Advocates for the system say it enables the candidate with the most general support to
win. If no one wins the majority, the candidate with the fewest number of votes is removed from the
race, and the eliminated candidates votes are transferred to the voters second-choice candidate.
This process continues until a winner emerges.
The councils opposition is ironic given that instant runoff voting has garnered public interest in large
part because of a December council race. In that race, Tom Berg was one of 14 candidates in a
special election to represent District 1 and won with just 2,326 votes or 4.3 percent of registered
voters.

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