Instant Runoff Voting: Anyone Can Do It

Tomorrow the City of Aspen will use the Instant Runoff Voting method. It's an innovative step considering the method is not widely used, and the system has never been used in Aspen. The idea is hard to explain. A visual aid is the best tool to understand it. There is a pamphlet online, and anyone with PDF capabilities can get to it. Log onto aspenpitkin.com, then click on "Instant Runoff Voting," finally click on "Instant Runoff Voting Brochure."

The brochure lists "fake" candidates such as, Colonel Mustard and Greta Greenwood. You can fill out the ovals on the brochure for a practice run before you go to the polls. City Clerk, Kathryn Koch told me, the most important thing for voters to remember is to rank as many candidates as possible, and fill in as many ovals as is comfortable: the more the better. And everyone's vote counts! Now, get out and vote!