SLO is overhauling the way you vote for City Council. And it's a huge change
The way you elect City Council representatives will be very different this year now that San Luis Obispo has officially switched to a new single-vote system.
The change has been in the works for a number of years, since the nonprofit Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a Latino voter participation organization, threatened litigation in 2023 if the city didn’t transition to district elections.
The group claimed the city’s at-large voting system diluted the influence of local Latino voters. It wasn’t a unique push.
The group has successfully lobbied a number of California cities in recent years, prompting them to switch to electing council members by district rather than the city as a whole.
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