Ranked Choice Voting

This year, Portlanders are using a new voting system to elect the city’s Mayor, Auditor and City Council. Instead of a primary followed by a general election, these positions will all be elected in a single November election using ranked-choice voting (RCV). Melanie will summarize the changes, then dive deeply into how to vote under the new system, to ensure that your vote counts to the greatest extent possible. This will be a strictly non-partisan, interactive workshop, including live voting in a mock RCV election.

Melanie Billings-Yun chairs the Portland League of Women Voters ranked-choice voting team and is a member of the League’s Charter Education Coordinating Committee. Previously, she was co-chair of the Portland Charter Commission, which crafted the changes to the city’s form of government and electoral system that were approved by voters in 2022 and will be implemented this November.