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I spent about 15 minutes trying to find this to explain to my parents about ranked choice voting:

Colorado, Grand Junction specifically, held the first preferential/ranked choice vote in US history in 1909. The library of congress has a copy of the ballot showing how simple such voting was.

If only we could get the county charter rewritten to use such ballots again!

loc.gov/resource/rbpe.00204300

#voting #mesacounty #colorado #grandjunction #history #libraryofcongress

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JohnOtto · @JohnOtto
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Commissioner Scott ' final 'fuck you' to is making it easier for the sheriff to levy daily fines and trample the constitutional right of the poorer residents of the area.

An ordinance with no name yet, that can't be tracked down in any written form, to fine 'unsightly' RVs on public land was passed

The Daily Sentinel posts an example. See the google street view of the this "public" nuisance. If anything, the scaffolding business is sorer on the eyes!

#mesacounty #mcinnis #grandjunction

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