Instant Runoff Voting for Texas

IRV for Texas is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, volunteer-run organization. We advocate for adoption of instant runoff elections in Texas. Our approach is to pass incremental legislation so Texans can see how it works, one type of election at a time. We advocate to use instant runoffs for military and overseas voters, in primaries and special elections, and as a local option for nonpartisan municipal and school board elections.

Founded in the summer of 2019, we have a 501(c)(3) organization for our voter education efforts and a 501(c)(4) organization for legislative advocacy. We educate and rally support from the general public so supporters and volunteers can persuade legislators to pass enabling legislation.

We Are

We are moms, dads, millennials, retirees, problem solvers, and dog lovers, ....

We are oil and gas executives, engineers, professors, project managers, graphic designers, and software engineers, ...

We are advocates, concerned citizens, and election judges, …

And we are believers in a vibrant, competitive, inclusive democracy just as our Founding Fathers intended.

Texas - We're Like a Whole Other Country!

Instant Runoff Voting for Texas supports the use of ranked choice voting (RCV) in the elections where it is permitted, but our work in Texas is different from the RCV campaigns you may have heard about in the news. What we are doing in Texas is different both in the objective we are trying to achieve and the process by which we will achieve it.

Our objective in Texas is different than other places. In Texas, we are not advocating for “open primaries;” we already have them. And we are not proposing to use Instant Runoff Voting in partisan general elections, which do not require a majority to win. Read More