With new ballot count numbers released, the votes for changing the Seattle elections systems to ranked choice voting have started to narrowly edge out the votes against it.
With new ballot count numbers released, the votes for changing the Seattle elections systems have started to narrowly edge out the votes against it. According to numbers released by King County Elections Monday evening, there are 138,439 votes for changing elections, or 50.5%, versus 135,515 votes against, or 49.4%.
Initiative 134 is split up into two parts. The first, Prop 1a, is whether or not to implement a new system at all. The second part, Prop 1b, decides whether to change to ranked-choice or approval voting.In approval voting, voters select all candidates on the ballot who they approve of. The two candidates with the most votes for each office advance to the general election. Compared to this, in a ranked-choice voting system, voters would rank candidates for each office by preference.
“Turn every election into an honest measurement of how many voters support each candidate. If you’ve ever thought, ‘I’d like to vote for that candidate, but I’d be throwing away my vote,’ you’ve experienced how our current system doesn’t accurately measure voter support,” according to the Seattle Approves website.
St. Louis adopted an approval voting system during its November 2020 election after using a similar initiative petition campaign. The measure — Proposition D — got the support of more than 68% of voters. If approved, Initiative 134 would go into effect no later than 2025. If passed, ranked-choice voting would be implemented by 2027.
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