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

[Michael Garman]

So one person who works for FV (among many other groups) was involved in
the anti-STAR campaign? That’s hardly evidence of an FV conspiracy.
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 11:48 PM Ted Stern <dodecatheon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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