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Voter-Focused RCV in Minneapolis Sep 27, 2018

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Casey Carl, City Clerk of Minneapolis, tells us about ranked choice voting in his city: how ballots get counted, how voters learn about their elections, and what Minneapolis is doing next with RCV. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lPNFhzNDbcKRFLbUbEirerNlqMMoKKB5/view?usp=sharing Resources mentioned in this episode: - Minneapolis, MN election website: http://vote.minneapolismn.gov - Minneapolis, MN RCV page: https://vote.minneapolismn.gov/ranked-choice-voting

Back to Ranked Choice Voting Basics Aug 24, 2018

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In this episode of RCV Clips, Karen Brinson Bell and Connie Schmidt get back to basics: covering why RCV is used, where it’s used, how voters mark their ballots, how voters learn about RCV, and how RCV gets counted. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17TyEbBs1aVWzCtwpPtUiXFrGkBUKzcl3/view?usp=sharing Visuals always help, so here are some example ballots, example voter education, and illustrations of how single-winner RCV gets counted. - 2009 Minneapolis, MN RCV Sample Ballot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y-VcpaElawB2iIolF0FeHlHyx9T-Gc_E/view?usp=sharing - 2018 Maine RCV Sample Ballot: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MWWJWvoif27geLm4Qjfkxnmx08gTEfNK - Minneapolis, MN Voter Education flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10QvVnYB2diVKInqAfuvhickOV-DHvyMO/view?usp=sharing - How RCV Works page: https://www.rcvresources.org/how-it-works - Types of RCV page: https://www.rcvresources.org/types-of-rcv Resources mentioned in this episode: RCVRC Webinars: - ABCs of RCV: https://www.rcvresources.org/abcs-of-rcv - Usability Webinar 1: Designing Ballots for RCV: https://www.rcvresources.org/usability-webinar-1-designing-ballots-for-rcv - Understanding Multi-winner RCV: https://www.rcvresources.org/understanding-multi-winner-ranked-choice-voting RCV Clips Episodes: - Designing RCV for Voters (RCV Usability Study): https://www.rcvresources.org/rcv-clips-podcast/may-2018-designing-ranked-choice-voting-for-voters - Multi-winner RCV: https://www.rcvresources.org/rcv-clips-podcast/february-2018-multi-winner-ranked-choice-voting

Maine's Statewide RCV Election at the Local Level Jul 27, 2018

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Kathy Montejo, City Clerk of Lewiston, Maine, sits down with Karen Brinson Bell to discuss how local election administrators prepared for Maine's statewide RCV election in June. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Trvj7aeDl3e18X29LHGPNDoRLJSimlAy/view?usp=sharing Resources mentioned in this episode: - Lewiston's video on How to Mark a Ballot Using RCV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HPD37tMbgU - Lewiston's How RCV Works flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19WgWHCbZ42eXAjECJ1CxlAKwKoAdsHo4/view?usp=sharing - SOS Dunlap's one-hour RCV information session at Lewiston Library: http://lplonline.org/events/ranked-choice-voting-outreach/ Informational kiosk in both City Hall and Lewiston Library: - Turner Publishing article - Absentee ballots, RCV information available at Lewiston City Hall: http://www.turnerpublishing.net/news/2018/05/22/lewiston-maine-city-hall-sets-up-information-table-on-ranked-choice-voting/ - Sun Journal article (paywall) - Lewiston spreading the word on RCV: http://www.sunjournal.com/lewiston-spreading-the-word-on-ranked-choice-voting/ Other outreach efforts: - May 8 – School Budget Election – Kathy was at the polls all day and spoke with hundreds of voters. There were posters, flyers, sample ballots, etc., available. - May 15 – presentation during City Council meeting showing how a ballot is marked under RCV – televised live on cable and YouTube, rebroadcasts on cable - June 4 at 1 pm - Presentation at Lewiston Senior Citizen’s Center meeting - Local community access/cable TV station running the SOS's 5-minute RCV video as well as the one-hour SOS presentation at the Lewiston Library

The History of Ranked Choice Voting Jun 29, 2018

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Chris Hughes and Morgan Chance talk about how ranked choice voting was used in the early 20th century and what that can tell us about ranked choice voting today. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCGlfzvjVDKzS8bfiLQhLuYPXvY4HuUf/view?usp=sharing Resources discussed in the episode: - Jack Santucci's Blog on IBM RCV Voting Machines: https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/early-stv-voting-equipment/ - RCVRC History of RCV in the U.S. Webinar: https://www.rcvresources.org/history-webinar - Jack Santucci's paper on the History of Multi-Winner RCV (paywall): http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1532673X16674774

Designing Ranked Choice Voting for Voters May 24, 2018

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Whitney Quesenbery of the Center for Civic Design talks to us about CCD's work on ranked choice voting usability: designing RCV election materials for the everyday voter. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AW667NkB87ZQc8Qbepm50nzK-bgqgZzT/view?usp=sharing Resources mentioned in this episode: - RCV Usability Reports and Materials: https://www.rcvresources.org/reports - 2018 Symposium Recordings: https://www.rcvresources.org/2018-symposium - Center for Civic Design: https://civicdesign.org/

The Utah RCV Municipal Pilot Project Apr 25, 2018

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Karen Brinson Bell and State Representative Marc Roberts of Utah discuss the ranked choice voting pilot project bill that passed there in March. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sGtKPygaC6h8YETXvweb9ba4-Ct2vo2a/view?usp=sharing Resources discussed in this episode: - FairVote's coverage of the Utah Bill: http://www.fairvote.org/empowering_utah_cities_to_fight_spoilers_with_ranked_choice_voting - HB0035 Bill Text: https://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0035.html - Utah Legislature Rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMEweniYYDY

Voter Education in Santa Fe Mar 21, 2018

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Join Karen Brinson Bell in a conversation with Maria Perez, of FairVote New Mexico, about voter education efforts for Santa Fe's inaugural RCV election held on March 6th. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XoyZt-yUmHJJxdpO7oTm9baESLibpIq8/view?usp=sharing Resources mentioned in this episode: - City of Santa Fe's RCV website: https://web.archive.org/web/20211102224109/https://www.votedifferentsantafe.com - City of Santa Fe's March 6th Election website: https://www.santafenm.gov/election_-_march_6_2018_regular_municipal_election - FairVote website on New Mexico: https://www.fairvote.org/rcv_in_new_mexico

Multi-Winner Ranked Choice Voting Feb 26, 2018

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In this episode, we cover the basics of multi-winner ranked choice voting with excerpts from our February 2018 webinar. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e037b3f2qKkOewVnNNBoaELVLYsHNfml/view?usp=sharing To watch the full webinar, check out: https://www.rcvresources.org/understanding-multi-winner-ranked-choice-voting Additional resources on multi-winner RCV: - Cambridge's 70-year history of RCV - FairVote: https://fairvote.app.box.com/v/fair-rep-cambridge-effects - Political Polarization in Cambridge - FairVote: https://fairvote.app.box.com/v/CambridgePolarization - Multi-Winner RCV in New York City - FairVote: https://fairvote.app.box.com/v/PR-in-NYC - Fair Representation Act Report - FairVote: https://app.box.com/embed/preview/6yf48sytw0at22y617yjoyndu4xr58sq?direction=ASC&theme=dark

Budgeting for RCV Jan 22, 2018

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In this episode, Morgan Chance and Gary Bartlett discuss building a budget for ranked choice voting elections. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AaQkwPviT47GyPuMW4jmmetiM0suX6u8/view?usp=sharing Resources mentioned in this episode: - Model Implementation Plan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15PX7RA1LQNLCM2pWVyOc0G3ZovadpWmq/view?usp=sharing - Requests for Proposal: https://www.rcvresources.org/blog-post/sample-rfpsrfis-voting-equipment - Center for Civic Design RCV Usability Studies: https://civicdesign.org/projects/rcv/

Universal RCV Tabulator Dec 19, 2017

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In this episode, Chris Hughes and George Gilbert talk about the Universal RCV Tabulator. The Universal RCV Tabulator is software that can tabulate ranked choice voting elections. The software is in its prototype stage now. As its development continues, it will be able to take voting data from any major voting system used in elections today to calculate RCV elections. It is being developed for Maine's 2018 RCV Primaries right now, and more RCV counting rules will be added once the Maine rules are fully tested. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OSIP4vnjWQjmMzHI9DVkwf5TXvZtKIeO/view?usp=sharing Resources mentioned in this episode: - Implementing RCV Statewide and Across Multiple Jurisdictions When Multiple Voting Systems Are Used (pdf): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VsbJYi22vIRcMmMetjzfe3R2ydu65v2T/view?usp=sharing

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