Q&A
Concerns about voter ability to process increased information with consolidated elections
2:59:29
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88 sec
Council Member Restler expresses concerns about voters' ability to manage and process the breadth of information in consolidated elections. He questions how to better engage and inform voters if the change were to be implemented.
- Highlights the challenge of having multiple levels of elections on a single ballot
- Shares experiences of voters feeling overwhelmed by ballot content
- Asks about strategies to alleviate voter confusion and information overload
Lincoln Restler
2:59:29
Have you looked at other municipalities that have consolidated their municipal county and state elections, and federal elections in a single voting day and how voters have been able to just manage and process that breadth of information.
2:59:47
When you think about 6 municipal elected officials, multiple state elected officials, federal elected officials, ballot questions, It's a lot.
2:59:57
And I just wonder how you know, I'm not in an either or, the choice is clear.
3:00:03
I don't know that that, you know, I would necessarily agree with the premise of that it's 1 or the other.
3:00:09
But if this were to move forward, how do we better engage, inform voters?
3:00:18
Because, you know, we hear all every single election, I get, I would say, dozens of frantic emails and texts, and I'm sure the same is true of you because Yorn and Susan and Marina, everyone anyone probably in this room, we're all the people who get the dozens of frantic texts of saying, what are all these things on my ballot?
3:00:39
Who are these judges?
3:00:40
What are these ballot questions?
3:00:40
Who are these people running for state senate?
3:00:42
What is this?
3:00:45
Would that issue not be exacerbated by 3, 5, or 10 if this change were to be made.
3:00:51
How could we if what could we do in concert with this change to try to alleviate that issue?
