The pieces are in place to seismically shift Silicon Valley elections \u2014 and Santa Clara County supervisors are holding all the cards. For the first time in almost a year, the Board of Supervisors is expected to discuss a potential switch to ranked choice voting at its April 15 finance and government committee meeting. There, supervisors will weigh estimates on the cost of rolling out a system that lets voters rank their preferred candidates. If no single candidate receives more than half of the first choice votes, candidates are knocked off through subsequent rounds of tallying \u2014 second choice, third…<\/p>\n