Judicial Overreach: Judge Forces Huntington Beach into Ranked-Choice Voting Experiment

Judicial Overreach: Judge Forces Huntington Beach into Ranked-Choice Voting Experiment

Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig L. Griffin has single-handedly upended the entire City Council election system of Huntington Beach. With one ruling, he has ordered the city to abandon its long standing at-large elections, impose ranked-choice voting, and consolidate all seven council seats onto a single ballot every four years. That a solitary judge can rewrite how an entire municipality chooses its government should astonish anyone who…