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Heated Public Debate Over Ranked-Choice Voting: Supervisors Continue Two Competing Charter Proposals
Summary
Two competing charter amendments on ranked-choice voting — one to repeal it and return to runoffs, another to strengthen and expand RCV education and rankings — drew hundreds of speakers. The committee accepted amendments and continued both items for further work and public outreach.
The Rules Committee devoted the latter portion of its Jan. 26 meeting to two competing charter proposals on how San Francisco conducts municipal elections.
Supervisor John Farrell introduced a measure to repeal ranked-choice voting and return to a two-round runoff system; Farrell later offered substantive amendments that would move the first round to September with a November runoff and require a 60–65% threshold to avoid a runoff, and delay effect until 2013. Supervisor David Campos (with Supervisor Avalos) proposed a countermeasure that would keep…
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