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The City of San Francisco and Pierce County, WA., have already conducted elections <br />using Ranked Choice Voting and in doing so have produced instructions for voters on <br />how to vote using this voting format. Staff from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters <br />has been in contact with counterparts in San Francisco and Pierce County to discuss <br />exchange ideas on how to best produce RCV voting instructions that minimize Election <br />Day problems related to the shift to Ranked Choice Voting. Staff from San Francisco <br />and Pierce County, Wash., has already supplied several examples of their RCV voting <br />instructions and other written materials to educate voters about RCV and have given <br />their blessing to Alameda County to use these materials to guide the County in <br />producing RCV voting instructions and other voter education materials targeting voters <br />for the November 2010 elections in Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro. <br />The written instructions for voting using RCV will be produced in consultation with staff <br />and elected officials from the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro; officers from <br />the League of Women Voters Chapters in Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro; and <br />community members interested in Ranked Choice Voting who participate in an advisory <br />committee that is helping to plan the rollout of RCV in Alameda County in 2010. <br />2. Tri-Fold Brochure <br />The Alameda County Registrar of Voters will create a tri-fold brochure featuring <br />instructions on how to vote using Ranked Choice Voting. The brochure will be printed <br />on 8 '/2 by 11-inch paper with instructions and visuals on both sides of the page. <br />A first draft of the tri-fold brochure already has been produced by the Alameda County <br />Registrar of Voters and is currently being circulated among elected officials and staff for <br />the Cities of Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro. The brochure is also being reviewed <br />by officers of the League of Women Voters chapters in Berkeley, Oakland and San <br />Leandro, and by citizen members of a Ranked Choice Voting planning committee that <br />has been meeting regularly since 2007 to plan the RCV rollout in Alameda County. <br />The brochure features a graphic depiction of a Ranked Choice Voting ballot and step- <br />by-step instructions on how to properly mark the ballot and to cast your votes using <br />RCV. <br />The brochure will be distributed to voters at public presentations planned by Alameda <br />County and the County's three RCV cities during the months prior to the November <br />2010 election, when Alameda County plans to use Ranked Choice Voting for the first <br />time. <br />Many copies of the brochure will be distributed with the League of Women Voters and <br />with the Cities of Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro, to help broaden the distribution <br />of these easy to use instructions on how to vote using Ranked Choice Voting. <br />Page ~ 4 <br />