Election worker Jacqueline M. Bond processes ballots on Nov. 9, 2022, at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters in San Jose, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)2
As ranked choice voting gains more popularity in cities across the Bay Area and around the West, Santa Clara County is looking to overhaul its own elections by adopting the system starting in 2024.
If it succeeds in changing the method to select countywide candidates, Santa Clara would be the first standalone county in the state to enact the still-controversial system, which eliminates the need for runoff elections by allowing voters to rank candidates in
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