The California State Senate Elections Committee will hear two bills involving ranked choice voting on April 23, Tuesday. One is SB 641, to allow ranked choice voting for special U.S. House and legislative elections. Read it here.
The other is SB 212, to let non-charter cities and non-charter counties used ranked choice voting for elections for their own officers. Currently charter cities and charter counties can do this, but not general law cities and counties. Here is the text.
State Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) is the sponsor of both bills.
See 34-33-32 Stalin-Hitler-Washington math example.
Too many New Age math MORONS to count.
Condorcet — RCV done correctly.
The one-party system is unacceptable because America is a melting pot.
The United Coalition USA has been bringing the correct math for pure proportional representation (PPR) for more than twenty-four consecutive years despite the party bosses and PPR is the only correct path to avoid the one-party system that Ben Allen brings.
What’s the name of the 2nd party who wins seats on the eleven-member SF Supervisor board?
Why do the SF Libertarians pretend like that the one-party system is fine while always blocking the United Coalition USA?
A primary followed by a run-off always seems to be much more fair. This way if your first choice didn’t make it to the run-off at least you had a 2nd chance.
Special elections for the legislature should be by all-mail elections held within 60 days of the vacancy. Candidates would be ranked by numbering using ordinary numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.).
Equal rankings would be permitted, treating the vote as equally divided among all continuing candidate.
Since the ballots would be collected by the county election officials it would be easy to gather all the ballots in one location (multi-county districts would truck the ballots to the largest county).
Citizen tellers would tally the votes (or OCR could be used as in Scotland).
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