Podcasts by RCV Clips
Join the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center for our monthly podcast, where we cover ranked choice voting election administration topics ranging from drafting legislation to election certification. We'll have brief interviews with team members of the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center, election administrators who have run RCV elections, and more, to tell us about the resources available through the RCVRC and best practices learned from running RCV elections.
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Election Recounts and RCV from 2022-01-27T11:37:21
Since the year 2000, there have been 11 recounts in ranked-choice voting elections in the U.S., and six of those happened last year! Two were held in Utah, two in New York City, and one each in Por...
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The Massachusetts Campaign for Ranked Choice Voting, Part 3 from 2021-12-17T21:51:55
Massachusetts voters had the opportunity to adopt ranked-choice voting statewide on November 3, 2020. In this three-part series, the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center dives into how the campaign...
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RCVRC Yearly Update Episode--October 2021 from 2021-10-28T13:52:43
Kelly, Chris, and Rosemary discuss what has been happening at the Resource Center. Listen in to hear project updates and more.
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RCV Rewind: Drafting Effective Ranked Choice Voting Legislation from 2021-01-27T15:50:01
As legislative sessions start up across the country we're reposting our January 2019 episode all about drafting RCV legislation. Listen in for pointers on how to write clear and concise RCV bills!<...
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The Massachusetts Campaign for Ranked Choice Voting, Part 2 from 2020-12-18T20:12:56
Massachusetts voters had the opportunity to adopt ranked-choice voting statewide on November 3, 2020. In this three-part series, the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center dives into how the campaign...
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The Massachusetts Campaign for Ranked Choice Voting, Part 1 from 2020-10-29T21:06:51
Massachusetts voters have the opportunity to adopt ranked-choice voting statewide on November 3. In this three-part series, the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center dives into how the campaign came...
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The 2020 Mid-Year Update from 2020-07-30T16:26:38
Rosemary Blizzard, Chris Hughes, and Kelly Sechrist give an update on everything the RCVRC has planned for the rest of 2020.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.rank...
Risk-Limiting Audits of Ranked-Choice Voting from 2020-05-29T19:46:23
Jennifer Morrell walks us through risk-limiting audits of ranked-choice voting contests in San Francisco, Alaska, Kansas, and Wyoming.
We suggest listeners check out our first audits epis...
Voting by Mail in the Midst of a Pandemic from 2020-04-28T05:00:38
There's been a lot of talk lately about how the 2020 election will look in the midst of COVID-19. While moving to an all mail election seems like a viable answer, there are a lot of factors that w...
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Statewide Voter Education in Maine from 2020-02-27T02:37:51
In this segment from our 2019 Symposium, Kristen Muszynski, Director of Communications for the Maine Secretary of State, walks us through how the State of Maine educated voters for their first-ever...
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The Great Middle School Election of 2019 from 2020-01-02T06:00:13
We sent 500 ranked-choice voting ballots into the lion's den: middle school classrooms. Listen in as Rosemary Blizzard and Melissa Hall talk about what the Great Middle School Election of 2019 taug...
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So How Does RCV Work, Again? from 2019-12-18T22:00:23
In this episode of RCV Clips, we mash up two older episodes of the show, Back to RCV Basics and Multi-Winner RCV, to give you RCV in a nutshell.
Visuals always help, so here’s some ballot...
Voting Rights in Eastpointe, Michigan from 2019-11-26T21:06:44
Rosemary Blizzard and Chris Hughes discuss the first-ever use of ranked-choice voting to remedy a Voting Rights Act complaint in Eastpointe, Michigan this year.
Resources mentioned in this epis...
The Universal RCV Tabulator, v1.0.1 from 2019-10-17T01:32:05
The RCVRC introduced the Universal RCV Tabulator in a webinar earlier this month. In this episode of RCV Clips, hear a segment from that webinar to learn more about how the Tabulator works and how ...
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The RCVRC Mid-Year Recap from 2019-08-30T20:08:11
Chris Hughes and Rosemary Blizzard talk about the RCVRC's work so far this year and everything we're looking forward to this fall.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Universal RCV ...
Hand Counting RCV in St. Paul from 2019-08-06T19:21:39
David Triplett, Interim Election Director for Ramsey County, Minnesota, joins Chris Hughes to discuss how St. Paul, MN hand counts their ranked choice voting elections.
For more informatio...
RCV from A to Z in Easthampton, Massachusetts from 2019-06-26T22:25:03
Tom Peake, District 3 City Councilor for Easthampton, Massachusetts, joins to discuss the movement for RCV in Easthampton.
Resources discussed in this episode:
"Easthampton, Mass., Mak...
Symposium Recap: Campaigning as an RCV Candidate from 2019-05-30T14:31:16
On April 29 and 30th, the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center held our second annual RCV Symposium. In this episode of RCV Clips, listen to Minneapolis City Council Member Linea Palmisano's presen...
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The Maine Voter Experience from 2019-04-25T20:32:36
Hear directly from two Maine voters as they tell Rosemary Blizzard what it was like to vote in their state's historic RCV elections last year.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
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The Story of Alameda County's RCV Implementation from 2019-03-28T13:20:49
Berkeley, Oakland, and San Leandro, all located in Alameda County, CA, began using RCV in 2010. In this episode, Dave MacDonald, former Alameda County Registrar of Voters and Chief Information Offi...
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Testifying on Ranked Choice Voting from 2019-02-27T23:24:34
Ranked choice voting legislation, like all pieces of legislation, goes through committee hearings where policymakers hear testimony from experts, activists, and members of the public. In this episo...
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Drafting Effective Ranked Choice Voting Legislation from 2019-01-31T14:52:57
Dave O'Brien, Staff Attorney at FairVote, joins Chris Hughes to talk about drafting effective ranked choice voting legislation.
Link to resource mentioned in this episode:
Colora...
The Politics of RCV Implementation from 2018-12-19T17:56:13
Steven John Mulroy, University of Memphis law professor and ranked choice voting activist in Memphis, takes Chris Hughes through the last 10 years of trials and tribulations for RCV in Memphis.
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Serving Military and Overseas Voters with RCV from 2018-11-20T19:00:50
Isaac Cramer, Absentee Coordinator for the Charleston County Board of Elections, talks with Karen Brinson Bell about how Charleston County uses RCV ballots to enfranchise their military and oversea...
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Securing Ranked Choice Voting Elections from 2018-10-30T18:02:34
Karen Brinson Bell, George Gilbert, and Chris Hughes talk about how to secure RCV elections using post-election audits.
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
RCVRC Audits...
Voter-Focused RCV in Minneapolis from 2018-09-27T20:35:47
Casey Carl, City Clerk of Minneapolis, tells us about ranked choice voting in his city: how ballots get counted, how voters learn about their elections, and what Minneapolis is doing next with RCV...
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Back to Ranked Choice Voting Basics from 2018-08-28T00:00
In this episode of RCV Clips, Karen Brinson Bell and Connie Schmidt get back to basics: covering why RCV is used, where it’s used, how voters mark their ballots, how voters learn about RCV, and how...
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Maine's Statewide RCV Election at the Local Level from 2018-07-27T16:13:16
Kathy Montejo, City Clerk of Lewiston, Maine, sits down with Karen Brinson Bell to discuss the ins and outs of how local election administrators prepared for Maine's statewide RCV election in June....
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The History of Ranked Choice Voting from 2018-06-29T19:33:11
Chris Hughes and Morgan Chance talk about how ranked choice voting was used in the early 20th century, and what that can tell us about ranked choice voting today.
Resources discussed in t...
Designing Ranked Choice Voting for Voters from 2018-05-24T13:37:50
Whitney Quesenbery, of the Center for Civic Design, talks to us about CCD's work on ranked choice voting usability: designing RCV election materials for the everyday voter.
RCV Usability R...
The Utah RCV Municipal Pilot Project from 2018-04-25T14:40:55
Karen Brinson Bell and State Representative Marc Roberts of Utah discuss the ranked choice voting pilot project bill that passed there in March.
Resources discussed in this episode:
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Voter Education in Santa Fe from 2018-03-24T00:00
Join Karen Brinson Bell in a conversation with Maria Perez, of FairVote New Mexico, about voter education efforts for Santa Fe's inaugural RCV election, held March 6th.
City of Santa Fe's ...
Multi-Winner Ranked Choice Voting from 2018-02-26T21:10:27
On this episode of RCV Clips, we cover the basics of multi-winner ranked choice voting with excerpts from our recent webinar.
To watch the full webinar, go to https://youtu.be/D9PWS3iLneM...
Budgeting for RCV from 2018-01-22T21:17:21
On this episode of RCV Clips, join Morgan Chance and Gary Bartlett as they discuss building a budget for ranked choice voting elections.
Links to resources discussed in this episode:
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The Universal RCV Tabulator from 2017-12-19T20:28:19
On this episode of RCV Clips, Chris Hughes and George Gilbert talk about the Universal RCV Tabulator. The Universal RCV Tabulator is software that can tabulate ranked choice voting elections.
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The RCV Model Implementation Plan from 2017-11-27T15:13:10
On the inaugural episode of RCV Clips, Morgan Chance and Karen Brinson Bell talk about the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center's "Model RCV Implementation Plan." The Model Plan is a broad map of t...
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Welcome to RCV Clips from 2017-11-21T21:49:41
Welcome to RCV Clips, the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center's podcast. On this monthly podcast, we'll cover ranked choice voting election administration topics ranging from drafting legislation ...
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