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Rex MacIntosh

The Nitty Gritty on Ranked Choice/Single Transferable Voting

May 30, 2018 by Rex MacIntosh
Nitty Gritty

Tomorrow Santa Clara voters will be asked to decide whether the City should adopt a two-district, at-large Council seat system and a Ranked Choice, Single Transferrable Vote (RCV/STV) election method. The system is used in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Malta, Cambridge MA and Minneapolis MN, and some elections in India, Nepal and Pakistan. Yet voters … Read more

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Is City Place Santa Clara a Safe Environmental Bet?

August 30, 2017 by Rex MacIntosh

Santa Clara’s City Place development plan isn’t just another building project. In addition to being the biggest development project proposed in the City’s history, it has a personal connection for me. As an environmental contractor, I provided groundwater monitoring services to the City of Santa Clara at this proposed site from 1976 to 1998. This … Read more

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