added support for results for full elections
[selectricity] / app / views / common / _methodinfo_runoff.rhtml
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+<div class="rbmoreinfo">
+<h4>About Instant Runoff Voting</h4>
+
+<p><%= link_to "Instant runoff voting",
+"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Runoff_Voting" %> is an electoral
+system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. In an IRV
+election, if no candidate receives an overall majority of first
+preferences the candidates with fewest votes are eliminated one by one,
+and their votes transferred according to their second and third
+preferences (and so on), until one candidate achieves a majority.</p>
+
+<p>Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is also known as the Alternative Vote (AV) and
+by several other names.</p>
+
+</div>

Benjamin Mako Hill || Want to submit a patch?