An anti-ranked choice voting group with ties to former state Senator and unsuccessful Oakland mayoral candidate Don Perata has abandoned its signature-gathering drive. Instead, it wants the City Council to place ranked-choice voting repeal on the November ballot and has asked City Councilman and longtime Perata ally Ignacio De La Fuente to introduce it, says Robert Gammon at East Bay Express.Add: But as Gammon notes, that’s problematic since the council appears evenly split on the issue and the tie-breaking vote would be cast by Mayor Jean Quan—who owes her victory over Perata in the last election to ranked-choice voting. (Perata, by the way, has since moved to nearby Orinda, setting off speculation that he may attempt a political comeback in Contra Costa County.)
