The move brings the Northern Virginia suburb’s experiment with the increasingly popular voting system to a halt for now.
Much like many county residents themselves, candidates had taken divergent stances on whether this “missing middle” housing effort was a positive or negative development for the county. Cunningham and third-place finisher Natalie Roy had criticized the zoning change, while Coffey and the other three primary candidates spoke up in its favor.Otis said a traditional “first-past-the-post” election could have resulted in two critics or two proponents of “missing middle” winning the primary.
Some expressed confusion as to why Roy, who came in second among first-choice votes, did not win the election. Others questioned why voters did not get two votes in a race for two seats. And others still said outreach to voters was lacking more generally. Otis, of FairVote, acknowledged that part of the issue was Arlington’s outdated voting machines, which only allowed voters to rank their first three choices. County board members noted that few voters seemed to have trouble with the act of ranking candidates on their ballot. Yet more needed to be done to educate voters on the “single transferrable vote” system, they said.
“I have heard a lot from voters who belong to minority groups that they really didn’t understand the process,” County Board member Takis Karantonis said.$50,000 for an outreach and education campaign, but the effort never went forward and the money was not spent. Most of the state’s materials did not go into detail about single transferrable vote.
The voting method used in November is not expected to affect the outcome in Arlington, where the Democratic primary is often tantamount to the general election. Just one person in the last 30 years has won a seat on the board without the party’s endorsement.But some critics said the switch back to traditional voting is an attempt to stifle the voices of those who disagree with the local Democratic Party.
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