[EL] latest snapshot of CA 36 race

[Richard Winger]

I don't want to steal Steve Chessin's idea, but he today pointed out that if California used Instant Runoff Voting for these special elections, it is extremely likely that Debra Bowen would have won.  Steve, a Democratic Party state central committee member from Santa Clara County, and President of Californians for Electoral Reform, says that most Hahn voters would have given their 2nd place vote to Bowen.

And, most Winograd voters would have given their 2nd place to Bowen.  That's all it would have taken for Bowen to win, and save Los Angeles County taxpayers the expense of the July 12 election.

--- On Thu, 5/19/11, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [EL] latest snapshot of CA 36 race
To: "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
Cc: law-election at uci.edu
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 4:55 PM

This will expose my complete ignorance of this matter, so feel free to
berate me: is there any reason it's top-two and not top-three, etc.?
I have a hunch that it's so there can be no splitting and that it's
subtly related to Duvenger's Law and FPTP (sorry, Rob!). best, Joe

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
> http://rrcc.co.la.ca.us/elect/11051110/rr1110pa.html-ssi
>
> As of Date: 05/19/2011 Time: 13:31                            Votes  Percent
>
> US REPRESENTATIVE 36 DIST    TERM ENDS 01/03/13
>
>    JANICE HAHN            DEM                                15,607    24.62
>    CRAIG HUEY             REP                                14,096    22.24
>    DEBRA BOWEN            DEM                                13,346    21.05
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