Faith in the overall political system can be eroded if trust in the electoral process is compromised.
Adam Brumley of Santa Clara makes his choices on an electric voting station in the Nov. 8 election at a polling place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Ranked choice voting has added complexity and confusion to the election process, likely negatively impacting the very voter base that it claims to benefit. Santa Clara County should not expend the substantial human and financial resources needed to pursue required changes in state legislation and a new county ordinance to authorize RCV.
What was recently characterized in an editorial as a “hiccup” in an Oakland school board election was actually an egregious error that may have resulted in the wrong candidate being certified, and now the results of that election will have to be decided by the courts, at significant cost to taxpayers.
There is no “test-drive before you buy.” Ranked choice voting structurally changes voting. Once enacted, it won’t be easy to turn back the clock and undo the harm caused by a mistake. In a report to the Board of Supervisors, the Santa Clara County registrar said that the single-source vendor system uses an algorithm to move the votes through as many rounds as needed to get a candidate to a majority. For example, in the first round, the first choice votes are tallied, and if a single candidate has received a majority of the votes cast , the candidate wins and no further rounds are needed.
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