⭐️ More choice. Show your preferences. 

⭐️ Empowers voters to vote their conscience by preventing vote-splitting and spoiled elections. 

⭐️ One Person, One Vote: Your vote automatically goes to the finalist you prefer. 

⭐️ STAR Voting better elects majority-preferred winners. 

⭐️ No cost to Oakridge: Measure goes into effect once funding is secured from the state and non profit sources.

Measure 20-364 Details:

Oakridge City Council and the Charter Reform Commission have referred a ballot measure to the voters. Measure 20-364 is a pilot project to implement preference voting for mayor and city council elections.  

STAR Voting for Oakridge wouldn't cost anything for the city and voters would get to try STAR Voting for three election cycles before voting to adopt it permanently. Oakridge city elections are already nonpartisan and are conducted through a single election in November, This would not change. 

Election day is Tuesday, November 5th, 8pm. Please vote YES for better voting! 

How does STAR Voting Work? 

STAR stands for Score Then Automatic Runoff and that's exactly how it works:

Scoring Round: voters score candidates from 0-5 stars. The two highest scoring candidates are finalists. 

Automatic Runoff: your full vote automatically goes to the finalist you prefer. The finalist with the most votes wins. 

Volunteer Opportunities: 

Meetings and Chapter Calls: The STAR Voting Oregon Chapter meets monthly online. Open Democracy Discussion is held online weekly. We also have regular in person events, trainings and actions. Please check our events page for details and to get the meeting links, or add the Equal Vote events calendar to your google calendar directly.

Outreach: Are you a people person who loves to talk about voting reform? If so, join our outreach team or come table with us!

More Opportunities: If you're looking for other ways to help, we also have many subcommittees and projects where we can put your skills and interests to work. Regardless of your location, availability, or schedule, you can help get this over the finish line!

To volunteer, please sign up here

• Door to Door Canvassing
• Tabling
• Event planning and coordination
• Outreach emailing to other organizations and community leaders
• Zine folding
• And more!

Deep Dive:

• What's wrong with the current system? 
  Our current system works fine if there are only two candidates...or two parties in the election, but it breaks down in competitive elections. 
  Learn more here.
  
  
• Comparing the options:
  STAR Voting was invented to go further to deliver on the goals of the Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) movement while addressing serious known issues with the older RCV proposal. 
  Learn more about alternative voting methods here.
  
  
• Read the peer review on STAR Voting:

  STAR Voting has topped the charts in multiple peer reviewed studies and expert analysis comparing voting methods. In particular, it dramatically outperforms Ranked Choice Voting. 

  • Peer Review: Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives
  • Peer Review: STAR Voting, Equality of Voice, and Voter Satisfaction: Considerations for Voting Reform
  • An overview of expert analysis on voting methods: Election Accuracy by Voting Method