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

[James M.]

Dianna, thanks for the info, very informative.

Karen, I'm a townie, and have been coming out to the AWARE monthly
demonstrations for the last year or so whenever I have the opportunity.
Love the work you guys do. One of these days I'll make a point to do a
guest spot on AWARE.

For Illinois Ranked Choice Voting, Ben Chapman is spearheading that
initiative. There is no webpage yet, but there is a twitter & FB (
https://www.facebook.com/ReformVotingIllinois). Ben is going to try and
tackle things at the state level, and he's asked me to help look into
things for Urbana specifically.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi James M,
>
> IRV and RCV are great. I was not aware there was a group working for
> RCV. I am assuming you are new to town?
>
> The Green Party and AWARE and several groups would probably be
> interested in what you have to say, especially if you think there is a
> chance for either.
> Both established parties are dead-set against it.
> My personal opinion is that Esther Patt is an amazing person and a
> great political mind, but long-term the political arc of both
> established parties is bending the same wrong way.
>
> Carl E and Karen A -- possible AWARE on the Air guest ?
>
> -karen m
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Dianna Visek via Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> > 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?"
>
> > 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.
> >
> > ---
> > James M
>
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