Runoff elections are often a cause of disenfranchisement for military and absentee voters.
|Instant runoff voting brochure|
Brochure outlining the advantages of IRV and highlighting some problems associated with runoff elections.
voter turnout in federal election runoffs: 113 of 116 runoffs between
1994 and 2008 saw turnout dropoffs. Downloadable data available.
|Analysis of Louisiana's two-round system||A 2000 analysis by FairVote on the two-round "Cajun primary" system shows that it can produce anti-democratic results and incentives.|
|Coincident runoffs in Brazilian gubernatorial and presidential elections||This 2007 FairVote analysis identifies two potential, undesirable effects Brazil's runoff system.|