Scott McLeod
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In 2021, the entire city was preparing for the implementation of ranked choice voting, including for the offices of the mayor, the comptroller, public advocate, as well as council members.
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With the advent of RCV in claims and the likelihood of confusion and misconceptions circulating about the new method.
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It was imperative that we educate the public and reinforce the facts.
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Similar to our election lead up efforts, QPL developed web content outlining the process, its background, the applicable offices, and resources to learn about RCV.
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Ahead of the special election, 1st, using RCV, QPO president Dennis Walcott, led a virtual discussion with the rank of vote NYC and CBOs with deep ties to communities in the borough.
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The conversation had more than 1200 live and post live views and is still available to anyone who was interested.
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That same year, QPL along with BPL and NYPL were proud recipients of a go vote NYC grant to assist with public education and outreach for the June primary and November general election.
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Together, we sponsored a series of 4 RCV virtual sessions in Mandarin, Cantonese, Bengali, Spanish, and Haitian Creo.
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We also jointly hosted programs that prompted attendees to consider how voting has long term consequences in regards to local issues.
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A session with our Quinn's memory project entitled NYC Flood Resiliency asked the experts involved a dynamic discussion about flood resiliency in the city, including history, policy, and neighborhood level actions.
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This topic was especially poignant since Hurricane Ida had impacted Moon's residents in the month prior.
