2026 CANDIDATE SURVEY
Andrej A. Selivra
Candidate for Los Angeles City Mayor
To help foster greater discussion about reforming City Hall, we asked City of LA candidates to participate in a six question survey. Half of the questions seek general feedback, and the rest are issue specific.
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Background: The City of Los Angeles is undergoing the first comprehensive review of our city’s governance structure in 27 years. The Charter Reform Commission recently transmitted a report containing over 60 recommendations to the City Council, who will soon be deciding what will be sent to the November ballot for potential approval by voters.
Ranked Choice Voting - It's literally the MOST IMPORANT thing we can do right now to make sure that good, down-ballot candidates aren't kept from voting consideration. However, Ranked Choice Voting is still imperfect, and we should really be looking at the next generation of Multi-choice voting systems, such as Score / STAR voting, which MORE ACCURATELY gauges the true voter sentiment, and doesn't have the downsides of RCV which has counting issues that can be complicated and cost lots of time and money the bigger an election is.
We need more City Council People, but increasing SINGLE-MEMBER City Council Districts is a mistake. Instead we should have FIVE Multi-member districts, each with FIVE Council Members (Valley East, Valley West, DTLA, West LA, South LA).
What happens too often is that a district is RIGHT NEXT to another, and their decisions affect others right across the street from them in the next district. We should have Multi-member districts to make sure that MULTIPLE demographics are represented in each of the Five Large Geographic Areas of LA.
Then to streamline legislative action progress, each of the 5 Districts should have a District Council Chair, and the Five Chairs should comprise LA City Council Legislative Voting. This allows for the District to get Aligned on their positions, which facilitates them voting more cohesively on City-wide legislation once it's ready for action at the City-level.
Political Campaign Finance and Inclusion Reform - Our campaign has been ROUTINELY excluded from Debates and forums because we "haven't raised enough money" which is an absolutely AWFUL metric by which to judge a campaign's success. An LA municipal campaign can ONLY qualify for City Matching funds if they raise $70k+, but there's a maximum donation amount of $1800/donor. This means you need to have a HUGE list of wealthy donors or literally HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of small-dollar donations, which is very difficult if you don't already have funding to promote your campaign.
We need to lower the limit for City Funds Matching and create a system where any Campaign that qualifies for the Ballot gets at least $5,000-10,000 to help their campaign. It's a tiny amount of money for the City and makes a huge difference towards helping Grassroots, non-money-interested campaigns success.
More SINGLE-MEMBER Districts is a MISTAKE. We instead need Five, Larger, Multi-member Districts. This will ensure that Council People care about and represent the ENTIRE Geographic region, not just their little neighborhood, which will increase fairness, representation, and progress for our City. We can enact this through voting reform with Approval or Score Voting, which can make it so that each district has more Diverse, equitable representation for their entire region.
I approve of this since it's still a huge upgrade to our 300-year old First Past the Post system, but we should really be looking at STAR Voting, which is the next generation of Ranked Choice. With STAR (Score) Voting, not only do you implicitly Rank the candidates, but voters can also express their SENTIMENT on the candidate, meaning that candidates who have generally HIGH favorability are more accurately elected against those will generally low favorability.
I think it's fine. By the time you're 15, you have a pretty Adult-minded brain and can logically think and even sometimes be more responsible than adults who are double or triple your age. Most young people won't take advantage of it (naturally), but those who would like to should be able to, in my opinion. It's always good to create ways to encourage younger people to be involved and more civically minded as early as possible.