Subject: Re: [EL] FW: Oakland Mayoral Race
From: Larry Levine
Date: 11/12/2010, 12:17 PM
To: Lloyd Mayer <lmayer@nd.edu>, Election Law <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

Wow. What a mandate for leadership. 76% of the voters select someone else as their first choice to be mayor and the candidate with 24% gets the office. New take on old quote: it may not be the best form of government, but we keep looking for ways to make it worse.
Larry
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Lloyd Mayer
To: Election Law
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:06 AM
Subject: [EL] FW: Oakland Mayoral Race

The story below, sent to me by one of Election Law students, may be of interest:


The Oakland mayoral race was finally resolved yesterday and it seems the star of the show is Oakland's ranked voting process:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/10/MNKV1GADKC.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea


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