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LAFCO directs staff to study ranked-choice voting and voter-education impacts
Summary
The commission voted to direct staff to analyze how ranked-choice voting has performed in San Francisco and elsewhere, including effects on turnout, voter education needs and undervote/overvote reporting; staff will return with a proposal.
The San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission voted on Jan. 27, 2012, to direct staff to study ranked-choice (instant-runoff) voting in San Francisco and to compile data on voter turnout, education and reporting practices.
Chair David Campos introduced the item as a potential study LAFCO could undertake to produce objective information about ranked-choice voting's real-world effects. Commissioners raised questions…
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