{"id":62742,"date":"2025-12-31T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/santa-clara-county-committee-says-ranked-choice-voting-saves-money\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:30:07","slug":"santa-clara-county-committee-says-ranked-choice-voting-saves-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/santa-clara-county-committee-says-ranked-choice-voting-saves-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County committee says ranked choice voting saves money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County\u2019s special assessor race this year has cost the county tens of millions of dollars. A county advisory board said ranked choice voting would have avoided that. Amid winter storms and holiday festivities, county voters were asked to cast their ballot by Dec. 30 \u2014 raising concerns about low voter turnout deciding the region\u2019s next chief property taxer. Candidates Neysa Fligor and Rishi Kumar won the most votes during the Nov. 4 special election, but neither got enough to win outright. The result \u2014 on top of spending $13 million for the November race \u2014 will\u00a0have officials\u00a0shelling out&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/santa-clara-county-committee-says-ranked-choice-voting-saves-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County\u2019s special assessor race this year has cost the county tens of millions of dollars. A county advisory board said ranked choice voting would have avoided that. Amid winter storms and holiday festivities, county voters were asked to cast their ballot by Dec. 30 \u2014 raising concerns about low voter turnout deciding the &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}