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Supervisor Farrell introduces charter amendment to end ranked-choice voting; colleagues debate timing and alternatives
Summary
Supervisor Farrell introduced a charter amendment to eliminate San Francisco's ranked-choice voting and place the measure on the June 2012 ballot. Colleagues and public speakers pressed for study, alternatives, or preservation of the system; no final board vote was taken at the meeting.
Supervisor Farrell introduced a charter amendment on Tuesday to eliminate San Francisco’s ranked-choice voting system and place the measure on the June 2012 ballot.
“Ranked-choice voting was an experiment voters approved in 2002,” Farrell said, arguing that the voting method has produced confusion and unintended consequences and that San Francisco voters should elect leaders by a simple majority. He said he and Supervisor Ellsburn would place the amendment on next June’s ballot and that hearings would follow over the next two months.
Several supervisors responded during roll-call introductions. Supervisor Avalos…
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