[Sosfbay-discuss] IRV

[Wes Rolley]

The following has been in the Letters to the Editor at the Mercury News 
this week. Maybe it is time for a followup from someone else in San 
Jose.  Agree with Cook. Who can get that out?

Wes

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  San Jose should try instant run-off

Now that we have 10 candidates running for mayor of San Jose, isn't it 
time we talked about instituting instant run-off voting for our mayoral 
elections? Also known as ranked-choice voting, it lets residents vote 
for their first choice for mayor, but then list their second, third, 
fourth and so on in the race. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent 
of first choices, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and 
the second choices of those voters are counted. The aim is to settle 
highly competitive contests with a single trip to the voting booth, 
saving the city thousands of dollars on run-off elections. And with San 
Jose's budget deficit, we can use every penny we can save.

/Joseph Cook/
/San Jose/


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"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
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