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EDUCATIONAL HANDOUTS

Proportional ranked choice voting for school board elections in San Francisco

What would be the impacts of changing San Francisco’s school board elections from the current at-large method to Proportional RCV?

What problems will Proportional RCV solve for SF Board of Supervisor elections?

What would be the impacts of changing San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors elections to a form of Proportional Ranked Choice Voting?

Proportional ranked choice voting for school board elections in Berkeley

What would be the impacts of changing Berkeley’s school board elections from the current at-large method to Proportional RCV?

“So how does this proportional ranked choice voting work?”

Wondering how P-RCV works? How the ballots are counted? How it’s different from the RCV used to elect the mayor?  This is the FAQ for you.

What might an Elections Commission for Alameda County look like?

Here is an outline of what a commission for Alameda County could look like, and here is a link to statutory language for this commission

ARTICLES

San Francisco: a Multi-Everything City that needs a new approach to local democracy

How should urban zones structure local democracy to ensure fewer turf wars, broader participation and greater engagement of its human talent and genius?

SHORT EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS

Ranked choice voting/instant runoff voting (single winner) — Watch this short video or this short video, which show how voters vote, how the ballots are counted and why it’s the fairest method to choose winners when a majority of the vote is needed to win. 

Proportional ranked choice voting — watch this short video and see how Proportional ranked choice voting works in citywide or multi-seat elections, including how voters vote, how the ballots are counted and why it’s the fairest method to elect representatives and ensure broad representation and competitive elections. 

RCV TIPS for Voters, Candidates and Organizations

Tips for Voters   in English       in Chinese        in Spanish

Tips for organizations  

Tips for candidates 

REPORTS

Ranked Choice Voting elections benefit candidates and voters of color