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Ranked‑choice voting draws split response at Carlsbad subcommittee
Summary
A split panel — Marcela Miranda Caballero for ranked‑choice voting and Paula Witzel opposed — presented to the Carlsbad Legislative Subcommittee; councilmembers asked about costs, machine readiness, voter education and potential ballot exhaustion; no council action was taken.
Two presenters laid out opposing views on ranked‑choice voting (RCV) at the Carlsbad Legislative Subcommittee. Marcela Miranda Caballero, executive director of the California Ranked Choice Voting Institute, framed RCV as a way to elect majority winners and to encourage broader, more civil campaigns. "Ranked choice voting enables voters to rank candidates in preferred order... so when you’re running for office, you have to win with that 50% plus 1," she said, and noted that…
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