The pieces are in place to seismically shift Silicon Valley elections — 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 — second choice, third…
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