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Many copies of the postcard will be distributed with the League of Women Voters and <br />with the Cities of Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro, to help broaden the <br />dissemination of these easy to use instructions on how to vote using Ranked Choice <br />Voting. <br />The City of San Francisco and Pierce County, Wash., have already conducted elections <br />using Ranked Choice Voting and in doing so have produced similar postcards aimed at <br />educating voters on how to vote using Ranked Choice Voting. Staff. from the Alameda <br />County Registrar of Voters has been in contact with counterparts in San Francisco and <br />Pierce County to discuss exchange ideas on how to best produce avoter-education <br />postcard that minimize Election Day problems related to the shift to Ranked Choice <br />Voting. <br />Staff from San Francisco and Pierce County, Wash., has already supplied examples of <br />their RCV written materials and have given their blessing to Alameda County to use <br />these materials to guide the County in producing its postcard and other materials. <br />4. Public Presentations <br />The Alameda County Registrar of Voters will work in concert with League of Women <br />Voters chapters in Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro in organizing presentations to <br />voters to explain how Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) works. Presentations will take <br />place at meetings with community groups, at senior centers, centers for the disabled, <br />areas with high concentration of African American, Spanish speaking, Chinese- <br />speaking, other minority language communities and non-English-speaking voters. <br />Presentations will involve Registrar of Voters employees who conduct outreach through <br />public presentations each elections cycle. Staff members involved in this effort will <br />include personnel who specialize in outreach to Spanish-speaking and Chinese- <br />speaking communities. <br />Representatives of the League of Women Voters of Albany, Berkeley and Emeryville, <br />the Oakland League of Women Voters and the San Leandro League of Women Voters <br />have already pledged to take part in organizing and leading public presentations as <br />well, stretching the resources in Alameda County for providing voter education about <br />Ranked Choice Voting. <br />Staff from the Registrar of Voters will develop educational materials, handouts and <br />visuals including PowerPoint and Flash Media presentations to aid in presentations to <br />the public. Development of these materials is already under way and is being done with <br />the feedback of an outreach committee of stakeholders that includes Elected City <br />Officials, City Clerks in the three RCV cities, officers from the three League of Women <br />Voters chapters and members of the community committed to successful <br />implementation of Ranked Choice Voting in Alameda County. <br />Page ~ 6 <br />