Portland City Hall, in Portland, Ore., July, 2023.
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The Portland Votes 2024 Grant Program has awarded $210,000 to 11 different organizations to support education efforts about ranked-choice voting. The adoption of a new city charter has changed multiple aspects of city government. One of the most prolific is that in November, voters will participate in a ranked-choice voting process to choose city council members, which is different from how many people are used to voting. Direct voter education grantees, including APANO, NAYA and Urban League of Portland, will provide culturally- and language-specific educational opportunities about the new system to the communities they serve, while other grantees will hold broader voter education efforts. Grace Ramsey, co-founder of Democracy Rising and the project manager of the grant program, joins us to share more about these educational opportunities.
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