Word: instantness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first 24 hours of voting . » Voters ranked an average of 3.54 tickets on their ballot, out of 6 eligible tickets. » The winning candidate (Petersen-Sundquist) had just 37% (1,314/3,519) of first-place votes, but achieved 54% (1710/3139) of the final redistributed votes under the instant-runoff system » 3 voters ranked “no candidate” as their first choice and a real candidate as their second choice. » Petersen-Sundquist’s campaign Facebook group achieved 513 Harvard undergraduate members, the most out of any ticket. » 35 student groups officially endorsed...
...Instant-Runoff' Voting Leaves Room for Campaign Strategy" to read more about how instant-runoff voting could impact this year's election...
Voters using the process, known as “instant-runoff voting,” list presidential tickets in order of preference. The first-choice votes are tallied, and a ticket that holds a majority of these votes is declared the winner...
...Instant-runoff voting—which has its origins in a system developed in the 1850s by Thomas Hare of England and Carl Andrae of Denmark—is advantageous because voters are free to choose more marginal candidates who may not have the strongest chance at winning. Under a standard plurality voting system, voters are often pressured to choose mainstream candidates for fear that their votes would be wasted on less viable candidates...
...instant-runoff system also ensures that the candidate who ultimately wins the election ends up with a majority of the votes, increasing the legitimacy of the winning ticket...