Santa Clara County will decide whether to implement ranked choice voting later this year

The debate over ranked choice voting in Silicon Valley continues to rage as Santa Clara County officials have pushed back a decision on changing the local election system until later this year, when they say they will have a better idea of how the federal budget will affect the county.

During Tuesday afternoon’s county finance and government operations committee meeting, Supervisor Betty Duong said the county is facing an “existential crisis of what this county will look like and how this...