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	<title><![CDATA[Lessons From Downtown Business Attacks on Instant Runoff Voting in San Francisco]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-richie/lessons-from-downtown-bus_b_219267.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The <em>San Francisco Bay Guardian</em>'s long-time editor Tim Redmond had <a href="http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/will_downtown_go_after_irv.html">an important scoop</a> last week: the downtown business community is contemplating an assault on San Francisco's <a href="http://www.instantrunoff.com">instant runoff voting </a>(IRV) system. At a June 18th strategy meeting, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce and several other downtown leaders talked about a potential campaign to repeal IRV. A Chamber executive said that its recent polling had found that after five annual elections with IRV in 2004-2008, support for...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-06-23T15:54:00-04:00</date_published>
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