Some technology brothers want to change the way Seattle picks its politicians. Though “brothers” is maybe a little unfair; currently, women account for five of the Seattle Approves campaign’s 49 individual donors. JK
The Seattle Approves campaign team is on the ground, clipboards in hand, with the goal of collecting the 26,000 signatures needed to put approval voting on the ballot in the 2022 general election. Even in this early phase of the initiative, election nerds are at each other’s throats, arguing whether or not the voting system is even legal.
“Does approval voting violate federal or state law? Maybe. Maybe not,” said George Cheung, director of More Equitable Democracy,
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