Santa Clara County weighs ranked choice voting for some elections - San José Spotlight

Santa Clara County weighs ranked choice voting for some elections - San José Spotlight

The pieces are in place to seismically shift Silicon Valley elections — and Santa Clara County supervisors are holding all the cards. For the first time in almost a year, the Board of Supervisors is expected to discuss a potential switch to ranked choice voting at its April 15 finance and government committee meeting. There, supervisors will weigh estimates on the cost of rolling out a system that lets voters rank their preferred candidates. If …

Why Ranked Choice Voting Was Bad for Virginia—and for Any State

Among the bills that the Virginia General Assembly passed in its 2025 session was one that would bring a process called ranked choice voting to the commonwealth. Ranked choice voting has been gaining traction in some states while it has been explicitly banned in others. Senate Bill 1009, introduced by state Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim, a Northern Virginia Democrat, would have made ranked choice voting one of the approved processes to conduct an elec…

April Showers, May Flowers, and a Growing RCV Movement - Rank The Vote

By Mark Bauer The stock market may be in free fall, but there’s still something on this rise as we enter the first full month of Spring: A growing ranked choice voting movement. When given the option, voters continue to choose ranked choice voting as a fairer and more representative way to express their preferences at the ballot box. Skokie, IL is the most recent municipality to adopt ranked choice voting in its elections, with  …

Santa Clara County weighs ranked choice voting for some elections

For the first time in almost a year, the Board of Supervisors is expected to discuss a potential switch to ranked choice voting, weigh the cost of rolling out a system that lets voters rank their preferred candidates. The post Santa Clara County weighs ranked choice voting for some elections appeared first on Palo Alto Online.

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