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Dear John,

It’s been another historic election year forranked choice voting!

* Three cities in Michigan –Kalamazoo,East Lansing, andRoyal Oak– voted to
adopt RCV. 71% of Kalamazoo voters, 52% of East Lansing voters, and 51% of
Royal Oak voters voted for RCV.
* Minnetonka, MN and Easthampton, MA voted to keep or expand RCV.
* RCV was used successfully in 11 cities across six states, including for the
first time in Boulder, CO. 10 more cities will use RCV later in the month,
when Utah holds its Election Day on November 21.

Ranked choice voting is the fastest-growing nonpartisan voting reform in the
nation; with yesterday’s ballot wins, RCV has won 27 city ballot measures in a
row!

“Election Day 2023 showed once again that voters want ranked choice voting.
American voters aredissatisfiedwith our politics, and in 27 city ballot measures
in a row, they’ve said ‘yes’ to better choices, better campaigns, and better
representation. Everywhere it’s used, voters like and understand RCV, taking
advantage of the opportunity to vote honestly and express more choices. We’ll
continue this progress later this month in Utah and again in 2024, when at least
Oregon and Nevada will vote on adopting RCV statewide and five states and
territories are poised to use RCV for their presidential primaries.”

- Deb Otis, Director of Research and Policy at FairVote


BALLOT MEASURES
* Ranked choice voting continues to grow across the nation, moving from just 10
cities in 2016 to approximately 50 jurisdictions now (including the states of
Alaska and Maine).
* Kalamazoo, East Lansing, and Royal Oak, MI – home to about 180,000
Michiganders – voted to adopt RCV.
* Voters in Minnetonka, MN reaffirmed their support for RCV – overwhelmingly
voting to keep the better election method after first voting to adopt it in
2020. Notably, 59% of Minnetonka voters voted to keep RCV; the ballot measure
to adopt it passed with just 55%.
* Voters inEasthampton, MAvoted to expand RCV to multi-winner city council
elections with 62% support. Easthampton already uses RCV for mayor and
single-winner council seats.

RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN ACTION
* A total of 21 cities are using RCV during this month’s elections across seven
states (CO, DE, MA, ME, MN, NM, and UT). 10 of those cities – all in Utah –
will use RCV in elections on November 21.
* The largest cities in Maine and Minnesota used RCV in their elections.
* The largest city in Utah (Salt Lake City) will elect its mayor with RCV for
the first time on November 21.

A DEEPER DIVE
* RCV election results have been reported quickly and smoothly across the
nation – most of the 11 cities have already run their RCV tabulations and
announced election winners, including for the mayoral races inPortland, MEand
Las Cruces, NM.
* St. Paul, MN looks poised to elect its firstall-women city council– joining
several other RCV cities that have elected historically diverse officials
using this better election method.
* Boulder, COsuccessfully usedRCV for the first time, in the city’s first
direct mayoral election. Boulder produced preliminary RCV results last night,
and is continuing to update results as mail ballots come in – the same as
other elections in Colorado, which is a vote-by-mail state. Local election
administrators have done great work so far following best practices for RCV
elections, like producing early results, communicating with voters and the
media, and running a post-election audit.

While cities like Salt Lake City, Boulder, Portland, Minneapolis, and Las Cruces
are quickly identifying majority winners in single RCV elections this November,
voters in Houston – our nation’s fourth-largest city – will have togo back to
the pollsto vote in a runoff next month. Louisiana voters will also return to
the polls for statewide runoffs next Saturday. Ranked choice voting would be a
faster, cheaper, and better alternative.

Sincerely,
Will Mantell
FairVote Director of Communications

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