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Local resident urges Portsmouth to consider ranked-choice voting, rebuts common objections
Summary
A Portsmouth resident presented arguments in favor of ranked-choice voting during public comment, rebutting three common objections — voter capacity, cost and delayed results — and urged council to study the option and estimate implementation costs.
Aaron Cody, a Portsmouth resident, used his public-comment time Wednesday to present arguments for adopting ranked-choice voting and to rebut three criticisms commonly raised about the system: that voters cannot handle the change, that it will cost too much, and that it prevents timely results.
Cody said ranked-choice voting is already used in…
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