@jacksantucci Here in Arlington, Va., we have a five-member county board elected at large to staggered four-year terms. One of every four years, two seats are filled, with each voter getting two votes. As you’d expect, it produces a panel with no diversity of views. #RCV is under consideration but wouldn’t fundamentally change that. You: “We should take the single vote as given, then use other components of the rules to get us closer to whatever outcomes we might agree on.” (1/?)
@jacksantucci Some propose splitting the county into 4-5 districts and electing a board member from each. That could help and would be consistent with your advice, but small and equal districts would be hard to draw in this geographically small county. Wouldn’t county-wide multi-winner #STV with #RCV (3 or more at a time) be best? (2/?)
@jacksantucci How do we get there, though? It seems to me that instituting #RankedChoiceVoting first is a step that makes other steps easier. Get voters and office-holders used to that. Voters get it. I really don’t think it’s expecting too much of them. Later introduce multi-winner or some other reform that makes the whole body produce better outcomes.
Doing it all at once might be better but isn’t realistic. A benefit of advocating #RCV is that it helps, at least a little bit.
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