Alameda County is preparing for the first IRV elections in Oakland, Berkeley and San Leandro on November 2. Cast your vote in a web demonstration of these.

CfER opposed Prop 14, the June 8 ballot measure to adopt non-partisan blanket primaries for all state and federal offices except President. Almost all of our work on this issue is through active membership in StopTopTwo.org, a broad coalition of organizations opposed to Top Two. For more on CfER's role see our campaign page.

CfER's position on the practice of delaying the reporting of IRV results

Another bill, CfER-sponsored AB 308 would used ranked ballots to help overseas voters meet tight deadlines for returning their ballots in runoff elections. It got all the way to the Senate Appropriations Committee before getting stalled.

A challenge to the constitutionality of San Francisco's implementation of IRV was rejected by Federal Judge Richard Seeborg on April 16. For court documents and news click here.