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DEBRA BOWEN ~ SECRETARY OF STATE I STATE OP CALIFORNIA moo ]]th Street, bth Floor I Sacramento, CA 458 ]4 )T~ (9x6) 653~t4) ~~ (9]b) b53-462o j www.sos.ra.gav Exhibit A Voter Education and Qutreach Program for implementation of Ranked Choice Voting in Alameda County This document sets forth, as a condition of Secretary of State Debra Bowen's administrative approval of use in Alameda County of Sequoia Voting Systems' WinEI~S 4.0.1168 (`System 4.0'j, a Voter Education and Outreach Program (Program} to educate voters about Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). The Program nnust be implemented for each city that uses the System 4.0 voting system to conduct an RCV election for municipal office. On the date of this administrative approval, the cities whose voters have approved ItCV charter amendments are Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro. The goal of the Program is to ensure that alI voters in the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro have a clear understanding of how to cast an RCV ballot and how their choices of first, second andthird-preference candidates will be used to determine a winner without a separate runoff election if no candidate wins a majority of votes after first-ranked choices are counted. The Program includes four components: Materials and Media Development, Public Distribution Plan, Communication with Targeted Groups, and Election Day Procedures. The basic components of the Program were developed after extensive consultation with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters and city clerks from the three cities. The county and city elections officials solicited and received guidance and recommendations from a diverse group of interested members of the public, as well as elections officials for the City and County of San Francisco, which has conducted successful RCV elections with System 4.0. Befcsre finaliizing the materials and plans for the four components of the Program, the Registrar of Voters shall request and consider input from local low-literacy, minority language and disability rights advocacy organizations and other interested community members. Materials and Media Development Educational Materials Posters, Brochures. Postcards. Create RCV educational materials including, at a minimum: posters, brochures, and postcard mailers that alert voters to the first-time use of RCV in the next municipal election, inserts to be mailed with sample ballots and vote- by-mail ballots, poll worker training scripts, and information sheets and signs for use in all polling places to explain RCV to voters on Election Day. The materials shall describe the purpose of RCV, how to mark an RCV ballot and how RCV ballots are counted. AIl materials shall be provided in English, Spanish, Chinese and any additional languages as required under the federal Voting Rights Act.