[EL] Dems have no candidate in Cal US House district, yet Dem is largest party

[Rob Richie]

I just was looking at another feature of how voters handled "Top Two."

In the US Senate race, the percentage of ballots in the Senate race
invalidated due to overvotes was 1.03% so far -- with the higher rate among
absentee voters suggesting that the rate will increase as more votes are
tallied.

The SF mayoral race with 15 candidates and ranked choice voting had
overvotes of 0.4%, less than half that error. Oakland's mayoral election
rate of error was even lower. But as usual, media attention to such things
is only on the alleged complexity for voters of RCV, not the real world
fact that they made far more errors in the "simple" top two system.

It will be interesting to see how error rates might have affected some of
the closer races.

Rob

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On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Bruce Cain <be.cain48 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Richard
>
> If and when the same thing happens at the statewide level, the top two
> will immeditately lose favor.  But if that does not happen, we have to wait
> for the myth of the polarization miracle cure to die its slow, inevitable
> death.
> Bruce Cain
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/06/07/democrats-are-largest-party-in-californias-31st-u-s-house-district-but-top-two-open-primary-leaves-party-with-no-candidate-in-november/
>>
>> Rob Richie also posted about this race on this list yesterday.  I was
>> expecting some discussion, but so far I haven't seen any.
>>
>> Richard Winger
>> 415-922-9779
>> PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
>>
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