{"id":17564,"date":"2023-12-03T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T02:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/?p=17564"},"modified":"2023-12-20T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T01:54:13","slug":"ranked-choice-voting-listening-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/03\/ranked-choice-voting-listening-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranked Choice Voting Listening Session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are proud to partner with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calrcv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Ranked Choice Voting Coalition<\/a><\/strong>, CalRCV, to host listening sessions to inform the community about an exciting new law that will give the County of Santa Clara the ability to implement Ranked Choice Voting for County elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ranked Choice Voting was recently adopted in Bay Area cities such as San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, allowing voters to rank their preferred candidates, with the winner determined by a simple majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The County has shown an interest in ranked choice voting for some time. In 1998, voters passed Measure F which ensured ranked choice voting would not be prohibited in the county legislature. In 2019, the county purchased new voting machines that would make ranked choice voting possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/d3.santaclaracounty.gov\/rcvlisteningsessions2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/d3.santaclaracounty.gov\/rcvlisteningsessions2023<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Location: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ZoomLinkRCVSession2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zoom Link<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><br>RSVP at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ZoomLinkRCVSession2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ZoomLinkRCVSession2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Questions?<\/em><br>Email us at <strong><a href=\"mailto:Supervisor.Lee@bos.sccgov.org\">Supervisor.Lee@bos.sccgov.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rcv2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rcv2.png 900w, https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rcv2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rcv2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rcv2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rcv2-750x750.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to partner with the California Ranked Choice Voting Coalition, CalRCV, to host listening sessions to inform the community about an exciting new law that will give the County of Santa Clara the ability to implement Ranked Choice Voting for County elections. Ranked Choice Voting was recently adopted in Bay Area cities such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/03\/ranked-choice-voting-listening-session\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17565,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions\/17565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}