St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson said she is not opposed to nonpartisan local elections and a runoff.

“I support exploring changes to the election process — election results should reflect the will of those who vote and should be as inclusive as possible,” she said in an email Tuesday.

Funding the effort so far is the Center for Election Science, which lists a Redding, Calif., address in campaign finance disclosures. But its director, Aaron Hamlin, said the organization is managed by remote employees. He works out of Chicago, and its philanthropy director Kirsten Elliott is based out of Salt Lake City but is moving to Arkansas soon. They were in town Tuesday for an STL Approves fundraiser.

The Center for Election Science has been around since early 2011 and is dedicated to changing how elections are run in the U.S. Hamlin, who called the prevailing plurality voting systems “horrendous,” said the group studied several voting methods before landing on approval voting as one that could be easily implemented and that simulations suggest will elect more “consensus-style” candidates.

“Approval voting does a much better job of electing voters’ honest favorites,” Elliott said.