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Guest Opinion: Real-Life experience with Ranked Choice Voting

California has always been on the forefront of new fads. Ranked Choice Voting is the latest. San Francisco and Oakland currently use Ranked Choice Voting to run their elections. Let’s take a look at how this has worked out for them:

The 2022 election for Oakland Mayor had 10 candidates on the ballot. 9 rounds of counting were required to determine the winner. With each round, the lowest vote getter was eliminated and the votes redistributed to their 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th choices. Loren Taylor was in 1st place for the first 8 rounds but did not quite reach the 50%+1 threshold. Sheng Thao was in...