Should the DNC do an IRV-based candidate poll?

[gulliver]

I for one am concerned that we are about to pick the wrong candidate based on a distortion of democracy we have all talked about many times. Namely, plurality-based voting may be costing us our ability to make an optimal decision for our party. There should be a way for the Dems to do some form of instant run-off voting (IRV) poll and make it public.

Currently, there are nine candidates. If you add "undecided," you get ten (10) buckets of votes. In the plurality-based voting (and polling) system we are stuck with, it is difficult to imagine achieving a legitimate result. The front-runner status, for example, could be meaningless (as I believe it may be) and we would never know it.

I believe the DNC could save us all a lot of trouble by doing and publishing its own IRV-based poll, possibly through a neutral organization. The question would be:

Who is your first, second, and third choice for the nomination?

Then just run the IRV algorithm on the results and you end up with a legitimate (or at least a much more legitimate) assessment of the will of the party.

On edit: corrected my number of candidates to 9. (Thanks to HFishbine!)

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Sounds good to me.

IRV rules!
If the US had IRV in 2000, we wouldn't be in this mess...

[HFishbine]

2. Currently

There are nine candidates.

[gulliver]

3. Thanks. I corrected it. n/t

[HFishbine]

4. I always forget one too

Won't say who though.