Fighting Cynicism and Implementing Seattle's RCV with City Council candidate Nilu Jenks

This is the actual solution to gerrymandering: proportional representation, and specifically proportional ranked choice voting. My conversation with Nilu Jenks, Seattle City Council candidate and political director at FairVoteWA, is a look behind the scenes at how difficult it has been to pass RCV in Washington, as well as how important it is to implement RCV correctly once it is passed.

0:00 Welcome Nilu Jenks!

6:05 How negative campaigning feeds cynicism

14:10 The "Seattle Model" of Ranked Choice Voting

23:00 Why and how the two-party system resists proportional RCV

38:45 Building a multiparty system through proportional RCV

46:47 Nilu's message to District 5 and final question!