Now bring it to Oregon! In Salem, house bill 2761 (HB 2761) passed out of committee with 6-1, and is now circling the house floor, trying to squeeze out the last few “yea” votes — for a bill that makes absolutely nobody do nothing they don’t want to.

That’s right–all HB 2761 does is give local governments in Oregon the OPTION of using IRV, with their OWN MONEY. If your burg doesn’t want to use it, great, it doesn’t have to do a darn thing.

This bill should pass with a 60-0 vote on the floor, that’s how tame it is and how unreasonable voting against it is. All it does, to repeat, is let cities, towns, and Metro decide whether they want to implement something that has been in the Oregon Constitution in black and white since the beginning of the 20th Centure (called preference voting there).

Call your Rep., D or R, and tell them that you expect them to vote YES on letting the people of Oregon decide for themselves, town by town, whether or not they want to use IRV.

Here’s the USA Today Editorial: A better way to vote backing IRV.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 11:15 pm and is filed under Elections. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.