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made available to produce voter-education videos and video public service announcements. Scripts for the audio and video public service announcements will be written by staff from the Registrar of Voters office, and vetted by staff from Alameda County; staff and elected officials from the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro; officers from the League of Women Voters Chapters in Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro; and community members interested in Ranked Choice Voting who participate in an advisory committee formed in 2007 that is helping to plan the rollout of RCV in Alameda County in 2010. Scripts for the audio and video public service announcements also will be translated for viewing by Chinese-language and Spanish-language voters, with the help of bilingual staff members from the Registrar of Voters office who perform outreach to these non- English-speaking communities. The translated scripts will be used to produce public service announcements in these languages, which can be distributed to radio and television stations that target Chinese-language and Spanish-language viewers. The public service announcements will be distributed to radio and television broadcast stations throughout the East Bay and the entire San Francisco Bay Area, with the help of an extensive list of media contacts that has been compiled by the Registrar of Voters office as part of its ongoing outreach efforts to engage the community in elections- related matters. The public service announcements would be distributed to radio and television stations in the late summer or early fall of 2010, with the intention that the announcements air during the six weeks preceding the November 2010 election. 6. Flash Media Presentation The Alameda County Registrar of Voters is developing a Flash Media presentation to explain the main concepts of Ranked Choice Voting, particularly how voters can mark their ballots correctly, to go with the many other voter-education materials being produced to help with the RCV rollout in November 2010. Flash Media is a computer-based program that incorporates graphics and other eye- catching visuals that will help explain the concepts of Ranked Choice Voting to the voters. The presentation can include text or audio explanations, which can easily be converted to help non-English-speaking voters. The presentation will be an ideal feature at the public presentations the Registrar will organize with League of Women Voters Chapters in Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro, and other community groups. Representatives of these League of Women Voters chapters have already pledged to take part in organizing and leading public presentations, and are enthusiastic about the Flash Media Presentation as a powerful tool in assisting with these presentations. Page ~ 8