Opinion: Ranked-Choice Voting Would Make Democracy Fair, Easy and Fun in San Diego

This opinion piece by Ismahan Abdullahi, Jeff Marston and Victoria Barba was published in The Times of San Diego. It cites RepresentWomen's RCV work. Read an excerpt below.

The More Choice San Diego coalition has filed an initiative with the city of San Diego that makes democracy fair, easy, and fun.

This simple change to our election process, known as ranked choice voting, would create an easy-to-use system that saves money and improves voter turnout across the board while leading to the election of more women and people of color, creating a more inclusive democracy. Those are the results in cities where this election reform has already been adopted.

The More Choice San Diego initiative would advance five candidates, instead of just two, to the general election. It also allows voters the option to rank as many candidates as they like in order of preference: one, two, three, and so forth.

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