Instant-Runoff Voting

I highly support a couple of measures to reform elections in this country. The first reform would be to use instant-runoff voting (IVR) in all federal elections. Obviously, this would need to be implemented at the state level, but it would still be beneficial in pieces. For those who are unfamiliar IVR consists of ranking the candidates you prefer in order. So, a Naderite in 2000 may have voted (1. Nader, 2. Gore). When Nader was determined to be the lowest vote getter he would be removed from consideration and the vote would go to Gore. This would have similarly worked for tea party Republicans in NY-23 last November. IVR would help eliminate the need to vote for the lesser of two evils. Voters could vote idealistically without helping their political enemies.