Learn about ranked choice voting (and meet Krist Novoselic)

Ranked Choice Voting is being officially studied by the King County Citizens Election Oversight Committee

Friday, June 26
7 PM
University Friends Meeting House
4001 9th Ave NE

Featured speakers/performers:

• Krist Novoselic, musician, and leader in the pro-democracy revolution
• Dr. Rich Anderson-Connolly, organizer of the successful campaign to enact RCV in Pierce County
• Erik Connell, with the national election reform think tank FairVote
• Joe Szwaja, former city council candidate in Seattle and President of RCV -Washington

Krist Novoselic is the former bassist in the Seattle-born grunge band Nirvana and currently the bassist for the band Flipper. He founded JAMPAC, an organization that works to protect the rights of free expression. He authored Of Grunge and Government: Let’s Fix this Broken Democracy. He is also a poet and gardener at his farm in southwestern Washington.

Dr. Rich Anderson-Connolly is a professor of comparative sociology at the University of Puget Sound, and was the leader of the successful campaign to enact Ranked Choice Voting in Pierce County. Rich will tell us how his group pulled it off, how opponents of democracy have continued to attack RCV there, and in particular how powerful interests are trying again to repeal RCV for Pierce County this November

Erik Connell is a former intern at FairVote, in Takoma Park, Maryland, where he helped with numerous efforts to enact election reform around the country. Erik is returning to his home town of Tacoma, Washington to help stop what is expected to be a well-funded effort to repeal RCV in Pierce County.

Joe Szwaja is a former member of the Madison City Council, current president of Ranked Choice Voting for Washington who led the successful effort to get RCV studied by the King County Council. He will tell us how our efforts have gotten RCV one step closer to reality in King County and what we can do to help get it on the ballot.

Hear Krist play a few tunes while panel members and the audience try to play along! plus see the unveiling of the new DVD … If It Plays in Pierce County with footage from the grassroots testimony that convinced the King County Charter Review Commission to study RCV .Donations are gratefully accepted to help fund the DVD and our other ongoing efforts to enact RCV in King County and throughout Washington.

http://irvwa.org/get-involved