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Assembly advances ranked-choice voting ordinance to full Assembly; staff to run public education
Summary
The Assembly moved ordinance 2025-13 (ranked-choice voting) to the full Assembly for introduction, accepted clerk amendments, and directed staff to design a public educational outreach plan on how ranked-choice voting works locally, including multi-seat cascade rules and result timing.
The Juneau Assembly’s Committee of the Whole on June 2 voted to forward the proposed ranked-choice voting ordinance (No. 2025-13) to the full Assembly for introduction and asked staff to develop a public education campaign explaining how ranked-choice voting would function locally.
Deputy municipal clerk Andy Hirsch explained the operational impacts for voters and election timing. "If we move to ranked choice voting, we will have the ability to produce first-rank results similar to the state of Alaska," Hirsch said, adding that full ranking rounds that eliminate lower candidates and determine…
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