After the Mid Hudson League Ranked Choice Voting Committee reviewed the pros and cons of rank choice voting as well as the efforts of sister leagues in New York City, Syracuse, and Long Island, it decided to move with a concurrence session. The concurrence would be with the original New York City Statement (below). If you are interested in Ranked Choice Voting, regardless of your level of familiarity, please consider attending the Zoom meeting.

Here is the Zoom link for the RCV concurrence meeting:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89792732490?pwd=WmxvNnpSUDVCODFIZFI2K0VKMHI5Zz09

What is concurrence?

Concurrence is the process through which Leagues can adopt a new position without doing their own study because another (trusted) League has done that study. If a League adopts a position, it means it supports that position.

In this case NYC has studied the issue of Ranked Choice Voting and we could ask LWV MHV members to adopt the NYC position.

If the consensus of the LWV MHV members is to concur, our League will be adopting the NYC position LWV of the City of New York Position on Ranked Choice Voting position:

"We support ranked-choice voting (sometimes called “instant runoff voting”) in all local elections, including primaries, specials, and general elections.

Voters should have the option to rank at least three and at most six candidates for a given office.
The counting should cease to reallocate votes once a candidate receives over 50% of the current round’s vote.

RCV/IRV should happen instead of any head-to-head runoffs that might otherwise have occurred.
Adequate funding should be provided for training, equipment, staff, and voter education."

Please address any questions to Gerda Maissel at grdmaissel [at] gmail.com or Dave Heller at mrplutocrat [at] aol.com