Minnetonka Charter Commission rejects ranked-choice voting method
Comments from their 7/28/20 meeting:
Concerned about ongoing costs for RCV...
Concerned about a well-funded (outside) group advocating in favor (of RCV)...
Concerned about amending the city charter without a single public forum...
RCV is not better than the system the city already has
(RCV) will cost between $60,000 - $120,000 more...
Former Mayor, Karen Anderson, speaks out
... Ranked-choice voting is costly, complicated, not proven to increase voter turnout and disenfranchises voters through exhausted ballots.
Respected, long-time councilmember, Dick Allendorf, speaks out
... more additional costs to the taxpayer, from $60,000 per year to $116,000 per year. We avoid a primary with ranked-choice voting (we’ve had four primaries in the last 20 years), but the ballots have to be counted by hand, (no machine has been developed to count the ballots), which requires more staff.