Ranked choice voting resolution
A council resolution (21-15C) on ranked choice voting for Sandy city elections. After a 6-1 vote at the April 13, 2021 work session to advance it, the council on April 20, 2021 rejected a 2023 start 5-2 and then voted 5-2 to use ranked choice voting in the 2021 general election and eliminate the primary.
Approved
- Type
- Code change
- Location
- Citywide
- Applicant
- Council Chair Cyndi Sharkey
- City Council: Ranked-choice voting survey results
- City Council work session: Utah Ranked Choice Voting survey presentation
- City Council work session: Candidate financial disclosure due dates
- City Council: Number of ranked-choice ballot rankings for the November election
- City Council: Ranked choice voting for city elections (Resolution 21-15C)
In brief
Ranked choice voting resolution appears on 6 recorded agendas, from the City Council work session meeting of April 13, 2021 to the City Council meeting of April 5, 2022.
On record, it was approved once.
The most recent decision was approved (5-2) at the City Council meeting of April 20, 2021, with Council Member Monica Zoltanski, Council Member Brooke Christensen voting no.
The City Council work session meeting of April 13, 2021 gave staff direction on it; that was not a vote on the application itself.
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Ranked choice voting resolution
- Council action
Approved: Ranked choice voting for city elections (Resolution 21-15C) · Approved minutes Record → · April 20, 2021
- Money in the record
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- Work and operating costs
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Every hearing and vote
April 5, 2022 · City Council
Ranked-choice voting survey results
Discussed
Mayor Monica Zoltanski introduced the item, and Communications Director Eric Richards and Jamie Jacobson presented the survey methodology, respondents and results. Council members asked questions and commented, and the mayor thanked everyone who worked on and took part in the survey. No vote was taken.
March 29, 2022 · City Council work session
Utah Ranked Choice Voting survey presentation
Discussed
Utah Ranked Choice Voting presented the results of its survey and thanked Sandy for taking part in the 2021 ranked-choice pilot program. The council asked questions and commented. No vote was taken.
July 13, 2021 · City Council work session
Candidate financial disclosure due dates
No action · 4-3
Council Member Cyndi Sharkey said that after Sandy adopted ranked-choice voting for 2021, the candidate filing period moves to Aug. 10-17, 2021, and concluded no change to disclosure deadlines was warranted. She moved, seconded by Council Member Alison Stroud, to keep the requirements as they are and not bring the item back. Council Member Zach Robinson moved to call the question, seconded by Council Member Kris Coleman-Nicholl. The minutes notes describe that procedural vote as passing 6-1 with Council Member Brooke Christensen opposed, and also record a 4-3 roll call, with Stroud, Coleman-Nicholl, Houseman and Sharkey yes and Christensen, Robinson and Zoltanski no.
May 4, 2021 · City Council
Number of ranked-choice ballot rankings for the November election
Discussed
Chair Cyndi Sharkey sponsored a discussion and direction item. The council favored using all ten rankings the ranked-choice system allows so residents get the full experience, and members stressed educating the community and gathering resident feedback after the election. No vote was taken.
April 20, 2021 · City Council
Ranked choice voting for city elections (Resolution 21-15C)
Approved · 5-2
Council Chair Cyndi Sharkey summarized the background, and guests from Utah RCV and the Salt Lake County Clerk's Office answered questions. Eleven residents spoke: Joel Frost, Kirby Croyle, Shauna Bona, Jim Edwards and Graham Tinius supported ranked choice voting; Sandra Haak, Katie Johnson, Dale Fairbanks and Patricia Jones said the public needs more education before it is used; Don Cann cited confusion and ballot exhaustion risks and urged a no vote; Steve Van Maren proposed a ranked choice primary as an education step. Council Member Monica Zoltanski moved, seconded by Christensen, to adopt the resolution with a Jan. 1, 2022 effective date, later amended to the 2023 election cycle; it failed 5-2, with Council Members Alison Stroud, Kris Coleman-Nicholl, Zach Robinson, Marci Houseman and Sharkey opposed. A motion by Christensen to table for three months died for lack of a second. Robinson then moved, seconded by Sharkey, to adopt the resolution for the 2021 general election and eliminate the primary election, which carried 5-2 with Zoltanski and Christensen opposed.
- Earlier motion for the 2023 election cycle (Zoltanski/Christensen) failed 5-2
- Adopted for the 2021 general election with no primary election
April 13, 2021 · City Council work session
Ranked choice voting resolution, first reading
Approved · 6-1
Council Chair Cyndi Sharkey sponsored a draft resolution on ranked choice voting. Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swenson, with Lannie Chapman and Michelle Blue, and Stan Lockhart of Utah Ranked Choice Voting took part in the presentation. The council voted to advance the draft resolution for a second reading and possible adoption at the next business session. Council Member Brooke Christensen voted no.
- Advances to second reading; no resolution adopted at this meeting