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Home My WebLink About02. (Handout) Speaker 3 - Presentation from meeting d• Speaker Empowering Voters in Contra Costa Central + Approval Vot'i* ng Presenter: Chris Raleigh, Director of Campaigns & Advocacy Empowering Voters in Contra Costa The Center For Election Science • National non-partisan, non-prof it • Quickest, simplest, and most impactful change: Approval Voting • St. Louis, MO + Fargo, ND 10 chapters, 180+ chapter requests "Electing" California's Most Iconic Locale z F Ra. Iq - +in ■ Can we make the change? Why make the change? .Y�j 4V TIS"ice _\"- ..!'1 1b 'titi=MMIp�.� }� � �l..y�Y ' -r � j �• y Ability to Change Election Laws • The California Electoral Code permits local governments to operate within the confines of their jurisdiction as they see fit, so long as their conduct does not discriminate against protected classes of voters. • California Electoral Code does not expressly prohibit a special district from implementing alternative voting methods. Ability to Change Election Laws • EC 15154 (c): "If a voter indicates, either by combination of both marking and writing in, a choice of more names than there are candidates to be elected or nominated for any off ice, or r a t e c oice of the voter is impossible to e, the vote for that office shall not be counted, but the remainder of the ballot, if properly marked, shall be counted." Empowering Voters in Contra Costa Voting System Administrators • No/minimal cost to change in Fargo and St. Louis • Nearly all US machines have ability to run AV elections ,; • Same ballot, counted at same time. Immediate results • Works fine with multi-winner races, primaries, generals and VBM To Solve a Problem : VotemSpleitt*ing Lyda Krewson 32%*t (Alderwoman) Tishaura Jones - • (City Treasurer,Former State 30% • • • representative) • - • Lewis Reed8% (President,Board of Alderman) Antonio French 16% (Alderman) Jeff rev Boyd 3% (Alderman) March Headshot Candidate 2021 Primary Result (w/Av) STL Mayoral Tishaura Jones 57%*fi (City Treasu rer,Former State Representative) Vote-splitting issue • • Clearer winner. Cara Spencer l+6%* Clearer �r (Alderwoman) • • • • Lewis Reed 39% candidates. (President,Board of Alderman) t elected in final round _ , Andrew Jones 14% (Businessman) Intuitive to Voters, Closer to Reality VOTE P REMOP a� s � YES NOVEMBER 3,2020 Q 68% St.Louis Young League of Women The St.Louis St.Louis American ST.LOUIS IS AT A CROSSROADS Democrats Voters of Metro STL Post-Dispatch Newspaper AND NEEDS POSITIVE CHANGE. vote THESE ORGANIZATIONS&LEADERS ' ENDORSE VOTING"YES"ON % r PROPOSITION D FOR DEMOCRACY. Cori Bush.Democrat Treasurer Tishaura Rep.Rasheen Aldridge Rep.Steve Butz for Congress Jones(D-St.Louis) (D-St.Louis) (D-St.Louis) ' ON NOVEMBER VOTE WITH • DIVERSE COALITION ON OF LEADEE RSyes WHO BELIEVE THAT VOTERS - SHOULD HOLD ALL OF THE POWER. SE/U (05vongerTo9ether 1 '0' ,.,w 1`111W Recorder Michael Alderwoman Megan Service Employees Action St.Louis VOTEYES ON PROP 0. Butler(D-St.Louis) Green(D-15) Irdernational Union Power Project Empowering Voters in Contra CostF- What Voters Said: Agree: "Approval Agree: "I LikedAgree: "I Voted Without Location Polled Using Approval Voting Was Easy" I Fear of Vote-Splitting" Voting" Fargo .•r. St. Louis 2021 78% 60%. . r r The Voters Deserve: To express themselves fully with their ballot An end to vote-splitting and the conflict fCR that comes with it ONew solutions that don't sacrifice other priorities d To know winners are truly re0� community & that all communities were heard Empowering Voters in Contra Costa Questions? • •• Chris Raleigh, Director of THE CENTER FORElection Campaigns and Advocacy Science chris@electionscience.org ElectionScience.org How Works: (What we have) Candidate Votes Percent of Vote Votes for U 17 17% Candidate Percent of Vote W 20 20% All Votes Cast Y 30 30% Totals1 0 votesfrom 100% 100 ballots (voters) How it Works: Candidate 1st Place Votes Percent ls* Place Votes (1st Round) of Vote U 17 17% �"andidate W 20 20% X ® � • - Y 30 30% TotalsPe rcent of Vote vo es from 100% 100 ballots (voters) How Works: Approval • • Candidate Votes Approval Percent Votes for a • • ae U 44 44% W 46 46% Total Ballots (Voters) X57 Approval Percenta • Y 30 30% Totals 177 votes from - 11 ballots Votes numbers are different,because people were able to vote for more than one candidate. Results, Transparency and Mandates St. Louis Mayor 222 of 222 precincts reporting(100%)•Approval voting•2 advance Name Votes Pct. AndrewJones 6,422 14.4% - �/Tishaura O.Jones 25,374 57.0°k - Lewis Reed 17,162 38.5°/a - �Cara Spencer 20,b49 46.4°/a - V4te5 °Gi V4te5 % V4te5 °la V4te5 °k VOteS °k Don Perrata 40812 34.39°k 41362 35.08°Ja 42186 36.13°, 45463 410.16% 51874 49.G4•� Terenre Caudell 2640 2.26�k 0 0.00% 6 0.005fa 0 O.OD4fa 0 0.004+a ]eon Quan 30496 25.705ra 30862 26.199a 31653 27.114rn 35031 30.9a9ra 5#895 50.964'e loe Tuman 14949 12.604ra 15202 12.694ra 15462 13.24°.ra 0 0.00°da 0 0.00°la Marcle Nadge 3250 2.745�a 36`t5 3.07�k, 0 0.00°k 0 t).005+e 0 0.00% Rebecca Ka lar. 26496 22.32Gk 26831 22.76°la 27475 23.53°7e 32!15 28.90Fk, 0 0.40°k Exhauste4 by quer Votes 380 401 416 461 526 UnderVates 2306 2306 2306 2306 2306 Exhausted Ballots 893 1655 2]66 6284 13667 Contlnuln Ballots 116665 117962 116776 11321# 165765 -- - ------------------------- - illi 68 Eilatrict 25 Sit r3lstrlCt 14 Cumberland Dlalrlci 2 State of Maine Official Ballot General Election, November 3, 2020 Instructions to Voters _ u President { fi fi r r I U.S.Senator r To vote,fill in the oval like Vice President 0 U Q U es G v y D r ti this " � � � To rank your candidate gin,Joseph R. 0 0 0 0 0 0 �1_ ollins,Susan Margarat 0 0 0 0 4 choices,fill in the oval: Flarris,Karnala D. arx�cr 17efnOcratc epu7liwn • In the 1st column for - - your 1st choice Do La Fuente,Roque"Rocky" 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gideon,Sara 1. 0 0 0 0 0 candidate. Richardson,Darcy G. FlOW04 • In the 2nd column for AR+r� Pa ly °B1noaralk your 2nd choice 0 0 0 Q Q 0 0 0 0 Q 0 candidate.and so on. Hawkins,Howard Linn,Max Patrick Walker,Angela Nicole Haem Continue until you have Green •anked as many or as few0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 :andidates as you like_ Jargensen,Jo ,Lisa Cohen.Jeremy �,eE^.aeon ie�l��rt :ill in no more than one Ivat for each candidate or Trump,Donald J. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 D 0 ❑ 0 olumn. pence,Michael R. Write-In Republican D rank a Write-in - sndidate,write the 0 0 0 0 ❑ 0 ?rson's name in the Write-fn rite-in space and fill in the �^ gal for the ranking of your ioice. /1..�..i—.. AAA1.44--at r^nfnefc California?What's the reality in • In last • mayoral elections • • cities candidates ran • CA Averages: CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC * 7.5 candidates • supportfor place