RCV Clips Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center

We sent 500 ranked-choice voting ballots into the lion's den: middle school classrooms. Listen in as Rosemary Blizzard and Melissa Hall talk about what the Great Middle School Election of 2019 taught us about ranked-choice voting, Christmas carols, and the mind of the American middle schooler.

Resources mentioned in this episode:
The Great Middle School Election Ballot: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MubuQC0EjL2DFDeXv2ZHZJQ_m4jrnGx4
The Great Middle School Election Ballot Survey: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pgFY1ErJOisTs6uqT8Ds901EXyXJjoK2
Introducing Ranked-Choice Voting Ballots: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CRG1dHBM6GEa08B82eTsJWzN7Zp77CHY/view

In this episode of RCV Clips, we mash up two older episodes of the show, Back to RCV Basics and Multi-Winner RCV, to give you RCV in a nutshell.

Visuals always help, so here’s some ballots, voter education, and illustrations of how single- and multi-winner RCV get counted.

Minneapolis Ballot:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3K2g6lIQMWsYkNRYXFxZElLeEk/view
Santa Fe Ballot: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/17Md8W3P2X6GSMWT9XDIMvUcxGnqpZ7Hd
Voter education: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3K2g6lIQMWsRlZNWkVFd2NNQUk/view
Single-winner counting process: www.rankedchoicevoting.org/single_seat
Multi-winner counting process: https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/how_multi_seat_rcv_works

Additional resources on single- and multi-winner RCV are available at these links:
ABCs of RCV webinar: youtu.be/GrS1goTVJew
Multi-winner RCV webinar: youtu.be/D9PWS3iLneM
RCV in 2019 Webinar: https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/rcv_in_2019
On Cambridge's 70 year history of multi-winner RCV: fairvote.app.box.com/v/fair-rep-cambridge-effects
History of Multi-Winner RCV in New York City: fairvote.app.box.com/v/PR-in-NYC

Rosemary Blizzard and Chris Hughes discuss the first-ever use of ranked-choice voting to remedy a Voting Rights Act complaint in Eastpointe, Michigan this year.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Universal RCV Tabulator: https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/universal_rcv_tabulator
Gingles v. Thornburg, 478 U.S. 30 (1985): https://www.oyez.org/cases/1985/83-1968
Alternative VRA Remedies: https://www.fairvote.org/fair_voting_in_the_united_states

The RCVRC introduced the Universal RCV Tabulator in a webinar earlier this month. In this episode of RCV Clips, hear a segment from that webinar to learn more about how the Tabulator works and how to use it.

To watch the whole webinar, follow this link: https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/universal_rcv_tabulator_webinar

To download the Tabulator software, follow this link: https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/universal_rcv_tabulator

Chris Hughes and Rosemary Blizzard talk about the RCVRC's work so far this year and everything we're looking forward to this fall.

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Universal RCV Tabulator: https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/universal_rcv_tabulator
2019 Symposium: https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/2019_symposium

Transcript for this episode: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wKTrzD9hSeDH5zYx28xruEk78CdZU-_I

David Triplett, Interim Election Director for Ramsey County, Minnesota, joins Chris Hughes to discuss how St. Paul, MN hand counts their ranked choice voting elections.

For more information on RCV in Ramsey County, head to this site: https://www.ramseycounty.us/residents/elections-voting/voters/ranked-voting.

Transcript for this episode: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EeA_4jNkl39dSmjfOEI63RGUxQl6mAQJ