[EM] STAR loses in Eugene, 33%-67%

[Ted Stern]

Excerpt from an email posted by the EqualVote coalition a few minutes ago:

> It started when we learned that an opposition committee had been filed,
and that the leader of that committee *was a long time Ranked Choice Voting
lobbyist for FairVote Washington* who would be writing the official
opposition statement in the Voters’ Pamphlet. We’d gone head-to-head in
Portland and we already knew his tactics — He is white, but his central
attack is that STAR Voting hurts people of color who would be more likely
to be confused by the new system. (A wildly hypocritical attack given RCV’s
known voter error issues that do hurt communities of color at higher rates,
a problem STAR Voting solves.)

(emphasis mine)

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM Michael Garman <
michael.garman at rankthevote.us> wrote:

> Where was the FV opposition in Eugene?
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 11:26 PM Ted Stern <dodecatheon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Given how the top-two Approval Primary effort in Seattle (2022) was
>> hijacked and then derailed into RCV instead, I'm not surprised by the
>> result. FairVote and RCV advocates appear to view all larger West Coast
>> cities as their territory, and will fight tooth and nail to defeat any
>> alternatives.
>>
>> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 11:58 AM <fdpk69p6uq at snkmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is really sad.  Ironically, they were attacked by both the pro-RCV
>>> camp (who view it as competition) and the anti-RCV camp (who view it as a
>>> variation of RCV), and the Eugene Weekly recommended voting No despite
>>> promoting STAR themselves several years prior. 😩
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 1:40 PM Michael Garman
>>> michael.garman-at-rankthevote.us |electorama electowiki voting
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