The California Senate Elections & Constitutional Amendments Committee will hear SB 1288 on Tuesday, April 19. The bill, if enacted, would let any California city use ranked choice voting for its own elections. Currently, only charter cities may make that choice. The sponsors are Senators Mark Leno and Ben Allen. Allen is chair of the Senate Elections Committee.
Back in 2006 we successfully got 55% of the voters of Davis to back an advisory measure to switch to RCV. The county had already purchased voting machines capable of running RCV elections too. Unfortunately the requirement for a charter killed the issue as the city and voters did not want to become a charter city. Hopefully this bill or one similar will finally get passed.
RCV for single offices is FATAL.
34 LMR
33 RML
16 MLR
16 MRL
99
With RCV, M loses. 50 L beats 49 R — aka Civil WAR.
Head to Head math –
65 M beats 34 L
66 M beats 33 R
M has a mere 99 votes in 1st and 2nd places.
Too many math MORONS to count on Mother Earth.
I.E. IF number votes are going to be used, there must be Condorcet head to head math — which would require computer voting in any large election.