Voting schemes aren’t Seattle’s problem. It’s things like district based elections for council members, maneuvers to set up low income housing in particular are

Voting schemes aren’t Seattle’s problem. It’s things like district based elections for council members, maneuvers to set up low income housing in particular areas to skew district voting patterns (see Magnuson Park), sitting council members (see Kshama Sawant) abusing city resources for political gain, a rioting extremist left that is willing to use violence for political gain, suspicious late vote swings in one direction (left), ballot harvesting of the homeless, and so on. These things undermine the city and its constituency, and unfortunately it may be too late to reverse the shift in political power that has resulted.