[Sosfbay-discuss] It's Time for IRV in Santa Clara

[JamBoi]

Excellent!  Its definitely TIME!  I'm extremely interested in general. 
I'll have to see if that particular time will work for me.  Thanks so
much to Jim for tracking this vital issue!

Green solidarity!

Drew

--- Jim Stauffer <jims at greens.org> wrote:

> For any Greens interested in helping implement IRV here in Santa
> Clara, Californians for Electoral Reform will be holding a strategy
> meeting on this topic. We're looking for people who want to work on
> this project.
> 
> CfER is a non-partisan organization with members from all parties.
> 
> Announcement below.
> 
> Jim
> =========================================
> 
> 
>            Californians for Electoral Reform 
>                Strategy Meeting Feb. 28
>             
> 
>   
> You are invited to an IRV implementation strategy meeting with CfER
> on Wednesday Feb. 28 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
> 
> Santa Clara Central Park Library
> 2635 Homestead Rd. (between San Thomas & Keily)
> Sycamore room (1st floor; back, right corner)
> 
> 
> As you may remember, Santa Clara County voters adopted Measure F in
> 1998 which allows the use of Instant Runoff Voting in county
> elections when voting equipment is in place that can accommodate
> ranked ballots. 
> 
> That voting equipment has been in place for two election cycles now,
> but IRV implementation has been held up awaiting the Secretary of
> State to write the protocols for conducting an IRV election. While
> the newly elected Secretary, Debra Bowen, is generally favorable to
> IRV, getting the protocols written is still likely to be a ways off. 
> 
> CfER believes we should lobby the County Board of Supervisors to
> establish a task force to write local protocols for implementing IRV
> here in the county. San Francisco has held three elections with IRV.
> Oakland and Berkeley have adopted measures to implement IRV. There's
> no reason why we should not be able to implement IRV here in Santa
> Clara.
> 
> This will be the topic of the strategy meeting. Please come and help
> put together a plan to bring IRV to Santa Clara County elections.
> 
> 
> RSVP to Jim Stauffer
> jimstauffer at sbcglobal.net
> 408-432-9148
> 
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JamBoi
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