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Granada Hills, CA, United States, 2010/06/14 - After vetting City’s campaign financing policies in March, expert panel discusses possible changes in City’s election laws to improve voter turnout and save cash-strapped city money.
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Councilmember José Huizar moderated his second good government panel in three months Thursday, when a panel of experts discussed election reform in hopes of increasing voter turnout in City of Los Angeles’ elections while exploring ways to save the city millions of dollars in the process.
The panel, which included Kathay Feng, Executive Director, California Common Cause, Ron Kaye, former editor of the Los Angeles Daily News and Antonio Gonzalez with the Southwest Voter Registration & Education Project, discussed Ranked Choice Voting, Vote by Mail and Changing Election Dates as possible solutions to voter fatigue and apathy in increasingly expensive elections.
“With voter-turnout in local elections continuing to be low, we simply must do more to engage voters,” said Councilmember José Huizar. “Through my series on political, campaign and election reform, I am bringing in the best and brightest to discuss how we can change city policy to improve our election process so that we increase voter participation and also save the City of Los Angeles much-needed money.”
Besides Feng, Kaye and Gonzalez, Thursday’s panelists for the forum entitled: “Election Reform in Los Angeles: Idle, Moving Back or Moving Forward?,” included David Holtzman with the League of Women Voters, political pundit Darry Sragow and Holly Wolcott with the Office of the City Clerk, City of Los Angeles.
Councilmember Huizar’s last panel in March focused on Campaign Finance Reform and resulted in a report from the City’s Ethics Commission on how some of the suggestions made at that earlier forum could be implemented. A similar report is expected to be requested by Councilmember Huizar following Thursday’s Election Reform Forum.
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