Ranked-Choice Voting Fails Transparency Test

Thanks to the Forum for the article on the ranked-choice voting proposal for Alameda County. While I guess it might save money for the County ( but not for taxpayers ), it fails the transparency test. We will be depending on a Wizard of Oz-like algorithm to tell us who won local races. Trust in government is already in pretty short supply, and ranked choice voting will only make things worse. It’s often hard enough to settle on one candidate to vote for, let alone make fine ranking distinctions between three, four, or more.

–Steve Rosenberg, Castro Valley