The Marin County Election Advisory Committee will hold its first annual community meeting on Thursday, June 21 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. The location is is the Board of Supervisors chambers at the Marin Civic Center, 3501 Civic Center Drive, 3rd Floor.

Lowell Finley, Deputy Secretary of State for Voting Systems Certification and Policy, will be the guest speaker. Mr. Finley oversees testing and certification for all voting machine technology in California. He is also an expert on election law.

What does this have to do with ranked voting? Open and read the attachment to find out. It's really a shame that this event conflicts with the Election Advisory Committee's annual community meeting.

The local chapter of the World Affairs Council will hold a lecture on Franco-American relations at 7:50 p.m. June 21 in the Creekside Room in Caleruega Dining Hall on the Dominican University campus in San Rafael.