‘No’ on Portland Charter Reform - Resources

The Portland Party supports a ‘no’ vote in November so that we can vote on a better ‘yes’ in May 2023.

1. Multi-member districts seem to work well at the state level, but not at the city level

2. Rank choice voting has many methods, some of which make sense, some of which that don’t

   1. All comparisons you are seeing to other RCV elections are ‘apples to oranges’ - they are not ‘Single Transferable Vote’ method that will be on Portland ballot, nor are they also in multi-member districts

   2. We’ll be voting on “regular” RCV at the county level in Multnomah County, which is probably fine!

3. Charter commission ignored key poll results and have since removed many key documents from the city website for voters to refer back to

Vadim Mozyrsky from Partnership for Common Sense Government

1. Rational in Portland Podcast (Spotify version)

2. Interview on KGW

3. Rose City Reform interview

Mingus Mapps’ Ulysses PAC

1. Mingus Mapps - Rose City Reform (this entire Substack is a great, unbiased look at charter review process as a whole, FYI!)

2. Jessica Elkan - Rose City Reform

NW Examiner - Allan Classen

1. Charter Reform Poison Pill

2. It Could Be Worse

Terry Harris

1. Baltimore lawyer who helped low & middle class families to get rid rid of multi-member districts - results after dissolution were more diverse, young and less likely to be incumbents

2. Follow him on Twitter for great knowledge & resources that he shares

3. He was very involved in Portland charter review but commission refused his input and offers of assistance