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Pre-election press conference on Ranked Choice Voting | |
Date | Monday November 01 |
Time | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
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Location Details | |
When: Monday, November 1, 2004, 11 am Where: Room 278, City Hall |
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Event Type | Press Conference |
Organizer/Author | |
Contact: Dave Grenell, 554-7633
Pre-election press conference on Ranked Choice Voting with Supervisor Matt Gonzalez When: Monday, November 1, 2004, 11 am Where: Room 278, City Hall One day before the November 2, 2004 consolidated election in San Francisco, Supervisor and Board President Matt Gonzalez is holding a pre-election press conference on ranked choice voting (RCV). The purpose of this press conference will be to review for the media and interested members of the public the following important items: 1. Guidelines for voters. What every San Francisco voter needs to know when voting on Tuesday, November 2. 2. Release of RCV data on election night and subsequent days. It will be explained how the RCV data with voters' rankings will be processed and election results determined. Examples of data files and tabulation results like the kind that will be released on Election night and afterward will be on hand. 3. “What will a good ranked choice voting election look like?” What benchmarks and standards will be used to understand what constitutes a successful election? A series of benchmarks and standards will be presented. 4. Transparency and security issues. The Department of Elections will be releasing the data set with anonymous records of all voters’ rankings, allowing an unprecedented level of transparency and security. Supervisor Gonzalez will be assisted in this press conference by the Center for Voting and Democracy. The Director of Elections John Arntz also has been invited to attend, and he will do so schedule permitting. _______________________________________________ |
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