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Re:UK Election Tech Handbook by Pete_D on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:15PM (#21400751)
"alternative vote" is the term the UK ended up using for instant-runoff voting when it had a referendum a few years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot...

Re:UK Election Tech Handbook by Wildgoose on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:07PM (#21404418)
Not quite. I think the proposals only affected the top two ranked candidates in the first round, i.e. arguably no better than First Past the Post.

Approval Voting would be simple, easy to understand and a vast improvemnet.