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Letters to the editor: June 22, 2018
Original post made on Jun 26, 2018
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a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jun 26, 2018 at 10:17 am
Gary is a registered user.
Good letters - all three. What law does Jose Antonio Vargas propose for the borders and for immigration? Any?
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Jun 26, 2018 at 10:44 am
Rather than add additional runoffs to top-two, a much better approach would be to implement ranked-choice voting. That way everyone can just vote once and it will go to an "instant runoff" if no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote. It seems to be working well in SF and Maine, so I'm hoping it gets implemented statewide here soon.
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jun 26, 2018 at 12:30 pm
Gary is a registered user.
Ranked choice can elect extremists not favored by most voters. Positions up for election in this county in November are either a top-two runoff based on an initial vote in June (for sheriff) or seats that go to the top vote-getter(s) with no runoff (3 seats on the City Council, for example).
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