[Peace-discuss] Instant Runoff Voting in Urbana 2007/08?

[Dianna Visek]

 I worked with Durl on this back then.  

The mainstream Democrats were extremely opposed to IRV and told folks all kinds of terrible things about what would happen.  There were people at the township meeting who had absolutely no understanding about what they were voting for, but had been told they had to be there.  One older African American  lady told me that IRV would take away our civil rights.  And we were only asking to put an advisory referendum on the ballot.   Even if it passed, the City wouldn't have to actually do anything.
Esther Patt was upfront about their opposition.  She said, "We worked for 20 years to take over the city.  Why would we risk changing things now?"
I'm emailing Durl to see if he responds to this.  I usually run into Durl and Jan at the Red Herring's vegetarian dinners during the school year.  I don't have their phone number, alas.

Dianna


    On Friday, June 29, 2018, 1:13:36 PM CDT, James M. via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:  
 
 
I ran across this article in the publici talking about IRV in Urbana:
(seems to be down at the moment): http://publici.ucimc.org/a-brief-history-of-instant-runoff-voting-in-urbana-municipal-elections/

Web Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160809204842/http://publici.ucimc.org/a-brief-history-of-instant-runoff-voting-in-urbana-municipal-elections/



Doing research, it looks like Durl Kruse was spearheading this. I had found an email address for him, but it no longer seems to work, I get a bounce back when I mail to it. Does anyone have any current email address for Durl?
Or also, does anyone have more information about what happened with IRV in Urbana or how to pick the torch back up? (the article seems to say that it kinda petered out in 2008) The folks over at Illinois Ranked Choice Voting (which is mainly comprised of volunteers in CU area) is looking to re-ignite the conversation and potentially work towards getting Urbana to switch.
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