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    1. Yashar Ali  🐘‏Verified account @yashar Jun 7

      Yashar Ali  🐘 Retweeted The Hill

      I will never understand the appeal of ranked choice votinghttps://twitter.com/thehill/status/1004952685253201922 …

      Yashar Ali  🐘 added,

      The HillVerified account @thehill
      Highest vote-getter in San Francisco mayoral race is in second place due to ranked voting system http://hill.cm/aUrQBnM  pic.twitter.com/w1uC91iO5z
      66 replies 19 retweets 137 likes
    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Jun 7
      Replying to @yashar

      I mean, a deceptive headline sure makes it easier to dislike it!

      2 replies 4 retweets 65 likes
    3. shauna‏Verified account @goldengateblond Jun 7
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @yashar

      As you can imagine, it is ALL the talk in political circles here in the city.

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Jun 7
      Replying to @goldengateblond @yashar

      Yes! I just think The Hill's tweet and headline are bullshit because they ignore the whole point and reality of what ranked choice voting is! The article continues in that vein.

      1 reply 1 retweet 30 likes
    5. shauna‏Verified account @goldengateblond Jun 7
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @yashar

      I've read why people like ranked voting. They make good points. But all I can see is "the person with the most votes can still lose." THAT SEEMS WRONG, CHRIS. I AM STILL SCARRED FROM 2016.

      4 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Jun 7
      Replying to @goldengateblond @yashar

      It's not "the person with the most votes"! It's the person with the most votes in the first round of voting. But the whole point is that, if that person doesn't get 50%, they didn't win. So, then the ranked-choice comes into play, and that person might not be the person with ...

      3 replies 2 retweets 26 likes
    7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Jun 7
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @goldengateblond @yashar

      ... the most votes in the second round. And, if they are, but are still not at 50%, they didn't win. So, you go to round three — and so on, losing the lowest person until the top vote-getter gets about 50%. And see: It will be the top vote-getter — in that round — who wins!

      1 reply 3 retweets 20 likes
    8. shauna‏Verified account @goldengateblond Jun 7
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @yashar

      I've been told this system produces the same winner a runoff would (and of course saves the cost of a runoff) — is that an assumption or is there evidence of it?

      6 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Jun 7
      Replying to @goldengateblond @yashar

      You can’t definitely say — because you could always learn more about the candidates in the interim — but there are many arguments that it makes it more fair and more democratic.

      10:50 PM - 7 Jun 2018
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        2. shauna‏Verified account @goldengateblond Jun 7
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @yashar

          Hmph.pic.twitter.com/TAXhlRuCSb

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Nathanial Owen #YesonC #Yeson10‏ @NJOwen Jun 8
          Replying to @goldengateblond @chrisgeidner @yashar

          There are exceptions, but RCV also generally produces a higher turnout than a runoff does. So it reflects the will of more voters!

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Nathanial Owen #YesonC #Yeson10‏ @NJOwen Jun 8
          Replying to @NJOwen @goldengateblond and

          But regardless, the people who say the person with the most votes isn’t winning are being dishonest. We would never pick a mayor based on a plurality of votes. So it’s either RCV or a runoff. Good arguments for both, but it’s not an unfair system. People are just unfamiliar.

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