Suquamish here in Silverdale

Hi everyone! Mohave county AZ here!

Vashon WA — Sqababsh Land

What is IT that's under discussion?

Ranked Choice Voting is the topic

If you don’t know the indigenous land where you live, you can look it up here: https://native-land.ca/

Grew up in Skykomish territory

Stillaguamish, Duwamish, Coastal Salish

Alpana—WA

from Chimakum, S'Klallam, and Coastal Salish land

Samish, Swinomish

Julie on traditional Snohomish & Coast Salish peoples, grateful for their stewardship

Forgetting names is OK, Sandy

Arizona is the most extreme, with election deniers as the GOP candidate for US Senator, Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State.

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When people register to vote and sign their registration they intend to vote honesty and do so. Everyone else need only know that everyone only wants to vote honestly. It takes faith in your fellow voters that their is no fraud. Since investigations have shown that there is little or no voter fraud, the statement I just made is true and correct and needs to be put out for all to read. It is voter suppression, which that takes deliberate action on the part of the people to cause voter suppression, that is fraudulent. Any legislator who tries to suppress the vote needs to be voted out of office.

We went for observer training and that ballot intent is really well-defined.

Its not who votes, its who counts the votes.

buy the mustang-e

RE: Elon Musk, chaos was ALWAYS the point. These rich a****les just want some entertainment. They want us to fight.

The outcomes for RCV lean left or right?

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o Ranked Choice Voting on the ballot in Washington State: Seattle - https://rcv4seattle.org/ Clark County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/clark-county-campaign/ San Juan County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/san-juan-county/ Take Action - https://www.mobilize.us/fairvotewa/

Lisa and Timothy: Which candidate for Secretary of State will be better on supporting election reform such as RCV and the Local Jurisdiction bill?

Are there opportunities for doorbelling this coming weekend?

Can you clarify what ranked-choice voting is?

Explain the two-step process for voting in Seattle. Do you want change - yes. Do you prefer rank choice?- yes

Is Mary Peltola going to win again in November via RCV?

Will you be promoting Andrson for SOS

2nd try. What are the outcomes of RCV - left or right or neutral. Any studies of outcomes?

What is your take on Open Fiinal Five Primary elections as way tg open closed Primary Elections. Allow all voters to vote on all candidates.Good for democracy??????

Can RCV lead to Proportional Representation in multiple winner situations?

The MORE POSITIVE CAMPAIGNS is a big seller. Mary Peltola won in Alaska by being nice. Palin lost because she was NOT nice. Begich voters were unwilling to vote for Palin. In a pure partisan primary, Begich would have lost in the primary, and Palin may well have won in the runoff.

I prefer "negative" campaigns to "positive" campaigns because I learn bad things (e.g., bad votes) about each candidate that I never would have learned through "positive" campaigns.

What'd you say to people who happen to ascribe to the philosophy of score voting being MUCH less partisan than even Rank-Choice Voting? (Speaking nothing about first-past the post systems.)

On RCV ballots, is the party stated at all or just the candidates name?

Alaska has Open Final Four Primary Elections where everyone can vote 0n all candidates. Final Five is on the Ballot in NV this November.

Ranked Choice Voting on the ballot in Washington State: Seattle - https://rcv4seattle.org/ Clark County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/clark-county-campaign/ San Juan County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/san-juan-county/ Take Action - https://www.mobilize.us/fairvotewa/

One activist, who should be more informed, was worried about how rank choice elections could be recounted in case of a dispute, or recount. If there is time, maybe?

What’s approval voting?

As a dedicated partisan, I'm pretty happy with the lock the dems have on say, Seattle. What's in RCV for me?

Ray Pardee, RCV means more Democrats can run without splitting the vote, and RCV can help Democrats find the most preferred Democrat.

Roy, sorry about your name, Roy, I read an opinion that with RCV we wouldn't need a third party.

Does RCV delay reporting outcome of elections?

Jackie Rivas, RCV does not delay reporting of outcomes in elections.

I agree with Lisa' answer, I also think it makes it much eaiser for smaller arties as people can vote for them without fear of the so called spoiler effect, this I think it is a more precise and fair way to measure voter preferences than our current system.

@Joseph - agree. The green party mostly likes rank choice

If Washington went to a multi-winner, proportional representation system, how would the state be divided, e.g. East zone and West zone, or would the whole state be done as a single area?

FairVote Washington has endorsed Julie Anderson for SOS.Anderson is the best candidate if you want RCV and is also endorsed by a lot of the auditors around the state.

I'm for RCV. One drawback, however, is those of us who feel some Democrats have gotten too far right and want to punish them by voting for a far-left candidate. For example, in 2004 after entering a war (Iraq) that Americans didn't want, the Democrats nominated a candidate that said "even knowing what I now know, I still would have invaded Iraq". (John Kerry) So some people voted for 3rd party as a protest. RCV would have obviated their protest since the Democratic leaders would have (rightly) assumed these people would have picked Kerry as their 2nd choice over Bush. Thus their positions could still be ignored.

ranked choice voting video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7N2hmX9FI

Youtube.com/fairvotewashington for more videos

I missed much of tonight's presentation, is there a lot of misinformation being spread around ranked choice voting e.g. that you will be forced to vote for candidates you don't want to?

Ranked choice voting Recounts https://www.rcvresources.org/blog-post/january-2022-election-recounts-and-rcv

Info@fairvotewa.org

Julie Anderson has ties to Republicans?

How much will it cost to set up RCV in Seattle? Hardware and software.

Re: Final Five Voting, WA already has “Open Primaries”. FVWA has always supported using ranking in the Primary. In Alaska, they decided to use Pick One in the Primary. Interestingly, a number of people in Alaska have now asked “why can’t I rank in the primary?”

I have just been persuaded (by Joe Szwaya) that RCV doesn't have the problem I mentioned: people will be unafraid to vote for 3rd party candidates so the vote count for 3rd party candidates will grow. If the Democrats continue to move right, eventually 3rd party candidates will overtake them and be elected. If someone strongly dislikes the Democratic candidate, they do have the option of just voting 3rd party and not putting a 2nd choice.

Good presentation. Off to LD meeting....

Ranked Choice Voting on the ballot in Washington State:• Seattle - https://rcv4seattle.org/• Clark County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/clark-county-campaign/• San Juan County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/san-juan-county/• Take Action - https://www.mobilize.us/fairvotewa/

Have to go thanks to all!

Don’t forget the SOS question.

How to get involved with our local Ranked Choice Voting campaigns:Seattle - https://rcv4seattle.org/Clark County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/clark-county-campaign/San Juan County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/san-juan-county/Take Action - https://www.mobilize.us/fairvotewa/

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2022/10/12/julie-anderson-fact-check-democrats-attacks?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

How to get involved with our local Ranked Choice Voting campaigns:Seattle - https://rcv4seattle.org/Clark County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/clark-county-campaign/San Juan County – https://fairvotewa.org/campaigns/san-juan-county/Take Action - https://www.mobilize.us/fairvotewa/

alpana——Thank you Lisa and Timothy for your informations.Cindy ,Thank you for connecting with them.

Thanks Cindy, Lisa & Timothy!!