The Green Party candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor urged the NYC Charter Commission to include preferential voting - also known as Instant Runoff Voting (or IRV) - for all single member elections.

 

The Greens also urged the Charter Commission to adopt proportional representation for City Council elections. Proportional representation, the election system used by almost all of the world's democracies, allocates seats in legislative bodies based on the percentage of votes that each party represents. The Greens said proportional representation would be far more democratic than Bloomberg's push for non-partisan elections. While the Greens would benefit from non-partisan elections, since the Greens win about a third of the non-partisan elections they enter nationwide, they also said that in NYC it would greatly benefit rich, self-financed candidates like Bloomberg. The three current Green Party Mayors in New York were elected in nonpartisan village elections.