Ranked Choice Voting in Irvine Fails for Lack of a Second
For months, Ranked Choice Voting advocates in Irvine have been behaving like victory was inevitable.
The sales pitch was simple: Ranked Choice Voting would save democracy, increase civic engagement, cure voter apathy, improve the weather, and probably lower your cholesterol. If you listened closely enough, you’d think Irvine was just one ballot measure away from becoming the political equivalent of Disneyland.
Then reality arrived.
At the most recent Irvine City Council meeting, Councilmember Dr. Kathleen Treseder’s effort to place a Ranked Choice Voting measure on the November ballot came to a screeching halt in the most humiliating way possible.
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