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Residents urge the Charter Review Commission to add ranked-choice voting to the charter; supporters offer resources for outreach
Summary
Two residents — Andrew Branch and Kyle Vernon — urged the commission to consider a charter amendment implementing ranked-choice voting (RCV) for Stow municipal elections, citing research and offering outreach and expert connections.
At the public comment portion of the Stow Charter Review Commission meeting two residents urged commissioners to consider adding ranked-choice voting (RCV) to the municipal charter.
Andrew Branch, who identified his address for the record, told the commission the Stow charter’s preamble “pays homage” to the U.S. Constitution and said implementing ranked-choice voting would be an empirically beneficial exercise of municipal home rule. Branch described RCV briefly: voters rank candidates in order of preference and candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated until one candidate has a majority. He cited studies — including a…
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