Local Representation: RCV as a Voting Rights Remedy
Channel: Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center
Date: 2020-05-14

Local Representation: RCV as a Voting Rights Remedy was the first webinar in our 2020 Webinar Series. This is a recording of the original webinar, which aired on April 29, 2020. 

Ranked choice voting (RCV) was used as a remedy in a Voting Rights Act case for the first time in November 2019, when Eastpointe, Michigan, used RCV to elect two members of its City Council. There's also a growing movement for using RCV as a remedy in state voting rights act cases, with cases out of California and Washington placing RCV front-and-center as a potential remedy. The groundbreaking New York Voting Rights Act, S. 7528, would explicitly include RCV as a remedy were it to pass in New York this year. Join this webinar to hear from a panel of experts on RCV's place as a remedy in federal and state voting rights cases.