Complaints about IRV from Chinese Americans
The Sacremento Bee reports: A group that represents the Chinese American community here said the city's new "ranked-choice voting" system may have left many Chinese language voters confused and unable to fully exercise their voting rights.
David Lee, executive director of the Chinese American Voter Education Committee, said city efforts to educate voters on the system may not have sufficiently reached Chinese voters, many of whom are newly registered.
About 18 percent of San Francisco's voters are Asian Americans, the majority of whom are of Chinese ancestry.
To back up his claim, Lee unveiled the results of pre-election surveys of absentee voters and Election Day exit polls, which found that white voters liked the new system but a majority of minority voters, particularly Chinese voters, either disliked or had no opinion of it.
The polls, though, also found that voters across ethnic lines found the system easy to use. -- sacbee.com -- Politics -- Inequities alleged in S.F. vote