Ranked Choice Voting - Support a Deeper Democracy

Submitted by mcclintock on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 14:23.
Location: 
University Friends Meeting House, 4001 9th Ave NE, Seattle, WA
Datestamp: 
06/26/2009 - 7:00pm - 06/26/2009 - 9:00pm




VOTE YOUR HOPES NOT YOUR
FEARS WITH RANKED CHOICE VOTING !

  • Ranked Choice Voting (a.k.a. Instant Runoff Voting) has been
    enacted for UW campus elections
  • Ranked Choice Voting is now the law in Pierce County
    elections
  • Ranked Choice Voting is being officially studied by the King
    County Citizens Election Oversight Committee
    (Thank you to everyone who lobbied to get RCV to this point
    for King County!!!!)

Come find out how we can enact Ranked Choice Voting for City
of Seattle and King County elections, and protect RCV where it has been enacted!

Friday, June 26,7 pm

University Friends Meeting House

4001 9th Ave NE

 

Featured speakers/performers:

 

Krist Novoselic, musician, and leader in the pro-democracy
revolution

Dr. Rich Anderson-Connolly, organizer of the successful
campaign to enact RCV in Pierce County

Erik Connell, with the national election reform think
tank FairVote

Joe Szwaja, former city council candidate in
Seattle and President of RCV -Washington

 

Krist Novoselic is the former bassist
in the Seattle-born grunge band Nirvana  and currently the
bassist for the band Flipper.  He founded JAMPAC, an
organization that works to protect the rights of free expression.  He
authored Of Grunge and Government:  Let's Fix this Broken Democracy. 
He is also a poet and gardener at his farm in southwestern
Washington.

 

Dr. Rich Anderson-Connolly is a
professor of comparative sociology at the University of Puget Sound, and was
the leader of the successful campaign to enact Ranked Choice Voting in
Pierce County.  Rich will tell us how his group pulled it off, how
opponents of democracy have continued to attack RCV there, and in particular
how powerful interests are trying again to repeal RCV for
Pierce County this November

 

Erik Connell is a former intern at
FairVote, in Takoma Park, Maryland, where he helped with numerous efforts
to enact election reform around the country.  Erik is returning to his
home town of Tacoma, Washington to help stop what is expected to be a
well-funded effort to repeal RCV in Pierce County.

 

Joe Szwaja is a former member of the
Madison City Council, current president of Ranked Choice Voting for Washington
who led the successful effort to get RCV studied by the King County
Council. He will tell us how our
efforts have gotten RCV one step closer to reality in King County and what we
can do to help get it on the ballot.

 

Hear
Krist play a few tunes while panel members and the audience try to
play along!

 

plus see the unveiling of the new DVD ... If It Plays in Pierce County

 

with footage from the grassroots testimony that
convinced the King County Charter Review Commission to study RCV .Donations
are gratefully accepted to help fund the DVD and our other ongoing efforts to
enact RCV in King County and throughout Washington.

 

http://irvwa.org/get-involved