Coloradoan.com: Fort Collins voters to weigh in on ranked voting

"April 5 [Fort Collins, Colorado] municipal ballot will ask if city should change its long-standing system for conducting City Council elections to the process known as ranked voting, or instant-runoff election."

The entire article, with commenting, is at  http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20110228/NEWS01/102280323/Voters-to-weigh-in-on-ranked-voting

Definition of "ranked voting":

An electoral system whereby voters rank candidates in order of preference. In the event that one candidate fails to achieve a sufficient majority, the candidate with the fewest number of first-preference rankings is eliminated and these votes redistributed, the process being repeated until one candidate achieves the required majority.

"alternative vote noun"  Oxford Dictionary of English. Edited by Angus Stevenson. Oxford University Press, 2010. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  David Weller.  2 March 2011   

A hat tip to Voting News blog.