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@khuey_ informed me that SFO is doing landings on runways 1, a very unusual pattern:
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A bunch of good answers already in the thread (some specific to Santa Clara County), but wanted to point to the "official" answer from the Secretary of State's office at
IMPORTANT THREAD: What to do if No Party Preference voters receive a vote-by-mail ballot without presidential candidates.
First—do not cast that ballot if you still want to vote for a presidential candidate!
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But why is geographical proximity a sign that people should have the same representation, anyway?
(I'd much prefer a proportional or probably MMP legislature.)
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And then you could do a real gerrymander like this 32/8 one if you're willing to have twistier lines.
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It's pretty easy to draw other similar maps with slightly different lines and the same 16/24 distribution, like this one.
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FWIW, this map (made from misuse of kevinhayeswilson.com/redraw/) shows a 2-way split of texas in which North Texas has 16 electoral votes and is solid Republican, and South Texas has 24 electoral votes and would have gone barely democratic using 2016 county results.
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The colors are pretty misleading since the US average went from 10.6% in 1970 (when the red color means <0.6%) to 31.5% in 2018 (when the red color means <21.5%).
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1976 Carter defeated Ford (though Ford wasn't elected)
1932 FDR defeated Hoover
and depending on the "+" in 100+,
1912 Wilson defeated Taft and TR (3-way election, though)
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RCV is ranked choice voting -- it refers to the systems where the voter ranks their choices. In proportional representation or mixed-member proportional representation, the voter doesn't give ranks, so calling it RCV doesn't make sense.
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That said, I also would prefer nationwide MMP (like Germany or New Zealand) rather than the weird Spanish/Portuguese-style multi-member districts that the above article proposes.
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Proportional Representation is not RCV. Each voter just votes for one party, and the parties are represented in proportion to their votes. I'd love to have the legislature be PR, or more likely MMP..
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I've had some experience with multi-winner ranked-choice electing boards in a standards body, using Meek's method en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counti… . People mostly think it's led to more polarization than we had before, though it's possible that would have happened anyway.
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(By multi-winner elections, I'm talking about things like "elect 5 members of city council".)
Most commonly, for single-winner elections, people mean Instant Runoff. It's generally reasonable, but so is Approval Voting.
For multi-winner elections, many options... most are bad.
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So it may depend on whether you're talking about single-winner or multi-winner elections.
Ranked Choice voting can mean many different things depending on how it's counted, even more so once you get to multi-winner elections. (See, say, Schultze STV.)
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Also, I think the max monthly rents (35% of 110% AMI) defining affordable to moderate income for Santa Clara County would be, based on 2019 numbers in hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/in… , per family size:
1: $2951
2: $3371
3: $3793
4: $4215
5: $4552
6: $4889
7: $5227
8: $5564
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On the other hand, SB35's rule that only above-moderate housing (and not other market-rate housing) counts is somewhat bonkers, so maybe the right answer here is 🤷.
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But how does the city decide what the rent is? And is the occupancy clearly defined? (The occupancy bit is the part where I'm making the most inference, I think.)
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My guess is that the rule is whether the rent is less than 35% of 110% of the county's AMI for a family the size of the max legal occupancy of the unit. See HSC 50052.5(a)(4).
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