Arizona’s Elections: Voter Choice Arizona

Join us on September 6 at noon for a conversation with Voter Choice Arizona.

Click here to watch this presentation on Secular AZ’s YouTube channel.

Click here to learn more about Voter Choice Arizona, a non-partisan group of mostly volunteers donating their own time and financial support for essential tools to help Arizonans vote.

Today’s speaker, Mark Cable, has been a middle school teacher for 15 years, with 10 of those years teaching the We the People  civics program to 8th grade Social Studies students. Mark has a B.S. in Business Administration from Northern Arizona University and a Master’s in Education from Arizona State University. Mark enjoys playing tennis and pickleball, and is excited to be a part of Voter Choice Arizona/ Better Ballot Arizona.

Why Mark supports Ranked Choice Voting: Mark spent 10 years teaching young people to be active citizens.  He discussed the importance of making a well reasoned argument, and the importance of really listening in a respectful way to those who have a different point of view.  His students can do this, but they are then faced with an elections system that rewards name calling, hate and fear mongering, and other forms of negative campaigning. How can we ask young people to not be apathetic, when they continuously feel like they are forced to choose between the lesser of two evils?  We can and should do better.