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The League of Women Voters of McLean County will likely launch a study later this year into the benefits and drawbacks of Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) for elections.
Educational Program Committee Chair Laurie Bergner says on the face of it, ranked choice voting appears to be a good idea to promote voter engagement and voter turnout because, in her words, “This helps every vote count.”
During an online Zoom event Wednesday hosted by the McLean County League, Jim Parr from the nonpartisan, nonprofit group FairVoteIllinois said ranked choice voting offers the ability to rank candidates on a ballot in order of preference instead of simply choosing one. Currently in Illinois, we have a system where candidates are elected by a plurality of votes rather than majority rule when the candidate gets 50% + 1 to be elected.
views. i m susan hendricks. we start with breaking news, and today we might get an idea just how big a disaster the massive oil spill might be on the gulf coast. parts of the slick are expected to reach the shores of louisiana any moment now, today. this is the forecast for where and when the tides will carry the oil. our very own richard lui worked for a company that makes oil clean-up equipment, and right now he is on the island in alabama, one of the places under the gun. take a lirch. this area is certainly used to dealing with natural disasters. we ve got hurricane katrina, ivan, gustav, for instance. this time around, it s a little bit different, and therefore, they re not sure how to react. here is an oyster shuker who has been doing it for 40 years. he s used to making a livelihood on oysters and here is what he thinks about what might happen. this is the first time we had an oil spill. i never thought about it being oil, at least. you always thought about hurrica
first, though, we could be seeing the nation s worst environmental disaster in decades arriving on our shores right now. oil from a rig that sank in the gulf of mexico is now just off the coast of louisiana. experts say that oil slick is so big, that it s frightening. louisiana governor bobby general dell estimates it s 600 square miles and has declared a state of emergency. you see this and can t help think of the exxon valdez along alaska. back then the valdez spilled until it was empty. no one has figured out how to get this leak stopped yet. we re talking about more than 200,000 gallons a day. correspondent richard lui is live on the alabama coast and joins us this morning. good morning i. s hard to imagine how big of an impact this could have on the people there. reporter: good morning, robin. that s what we decided to do. we got in last night around 10:00 p.m. and went to a place called went cell s oyster house, been around for over seven decades. we were thinking how
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