They’re holding out for Ranked-choice voting. Courtesy of the League of Women Voters of Seattle-King County

The League of Women Voters of Seattle-King County (LWVSKC) does not want you to sign Initiative 134, a ballot measure to bring Approval voting to Seattle elections.

“It’s not really so much that we hate Approval voting, but we need to have really high expectations for our election systems, and so it’s really about advocating for the most equitable model we can implement,” LWVSKC President Heather Kelly said over the phone.

While signature gatherers for the measure have earned a reputation for advertising Approval voting as an election system similar to Ranked-choice voting (RCV),