St Paul wasn't seriously contested last time and Mpls had sharper ideological contrasts in candidates.
#ELB: “Voter Turnout Surges in All Four Cities with Ranked Choice Voting” http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95891
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Interesting RCV wrinkle in Mpls: this is the second election where the winner had less than 50%. https://www.minnpost.com/results#contest/id-MN---43000-2001 … http://vote.minneapolismn.gov/results/2013/2013-mayor-tabulation …
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High turnout is good, but RCV is still a bad idea: forces voter into choosing betw voting strategically (bonus pts for being a good forecaster of final 2; sorry if not) or true ranking of choices. If bad guesser, voter didn't get to express preference betw final 2, 1 of whom
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is going into office. Good for you if you guessed the final 2 correctly; sorry for the bad guessers who HAD a preference betw final 2 but couldn't express it. Everything in elex is a tradeoff, but this is a bad one.
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