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'''Q: ([[User:RobLa]]) - It's my understanding that you were living in Burlington back in 2009, when this election took place. Is that correct? If so, can you tell me what it was like?'''
'''A: (Robert)''' - My family and I moved to Burlington in 2000 and it was always my permanent address and voting address since 2000. I've voted in nearly every election there in the 21st century and have served as an election official in Ward 7 for three years. Ward 7 is where Bernie and Jane Sanders live. There's a photo of Bernie voting in Super Tuesday 2016 and me standing in the room that someone snapped offa the TV screen. I've done some other activism affecting Burlington elections in that I drew the map that was eventually adopted in defining Burlington's 8 wards. [See [http://ward8btv.blogspot.com/2014/05/ward-8-looks-like-salamander-how-did-it.html Robert's fuller account in a 2014 exchange]].
Both Vermont as a state and particular towns like Burlington are pretty far left of center, in an authentic and wholesome way. Bernie Sanders, in becoming mayor back in the 1980s, essentially founded the nation's most successful third party (in terms of getting people elected to government), the ''Vermont Progressive Party''. There are a lotta state legislators and city councilors with ''"P"'' after their name, yet Bernie never put a ''"P"'' after his name, nor a ''"D"'' until he ran for President in 2015. '''Instant-Runoff Voting''' (IRV) was happily adopted in 2005 and used first 2006. Now the label '''Ranked-Choice Voting''' (RCV) is used for the very same method as IRV, although it's a neologism and a misnomer. Ranked-Choice Voting originally means '''any''' election system using ranked-order ballots where voters mark their candidates #1, #2, #3...
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