Volunteers to Host Innovative Signature Gathering Event:

Better Ballot Glendale, the citizens’ initiative to place Ranked Choice Voting on the city’s September election ballot, will host an innovative “drive through democracy” signature gathering event in support of the effort on Sunday, March 30, 2008, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the drive-through book drop area at Glendale’s Main Library, 5959 W. Brown, Glendale, 85302 (on 59th Avenue between Olive and Peoria Avenues.) Registered voters in Glendale are encouraged to drop by, drive through, and lend support to this historic ballot effort!

The Better Ballot Glendale effort seeks to place a referendum advocating a charter amendment adopting Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) on the city’s September election ballot, and has obtained 1100 of the 2500 signatures required. Ranked Choice Voting allows each voter to assign a numerical preference to each candidate. No vote is ever “wasted” because each voter’s preference “counts” in each round of tabulation. Ranked Choice Voting saves cities and taxpayers money and time in eliminating the need to fund, schedule, and allocate time and facilities for runoff elections.

The Better Ballot Glendale effort is supported by Glendale residents, Glendale businesses and churches, FairVote Arizona (www.fairvoteaz.org), and the League of Women Voters of Arizona. Volunteers interested in assisting this historic election reform effort may come to the tent area at the library on Sunday, March 30, or attend the next organizational meeting, scheduled at West Valley Unitarian Fellowship, 5904 W. Cholla in Glendale, on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

Ranked Choice Voting is utilized in American cities including Minneapolis, MN, Cary, NC, Burlington, VT, and Oakland and San Francisco, CA., and by political organizations including Utah’s Republican Party, as well as universities, homeowners’ associations, and other nonprofits.