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That’s exactly how Chesa Boudin got elected to DA in SF - ranked choice.

• ethbr0 4y ago
  It can be a bad option, but still the best of the alternatives.
  • refurb 4y ago
    You can look up who lost. Basically an “old timer” Democrat and a “hard(er) on crime upstart”. Not sure we got the least worst.
    • ethbr0 4y ago
      I meant ranked choice can be the least worst way of conducting democratic elections. Individual results will still rightly depend on voters. You can blunt the attraction of extremism, but hearts and minds need shifting before voters will take a fundamentally different approach.
• toyg 4y ago
  The alternatives might have been even worse.
• _vertigo 4y ago
  Boudin got the most votes in the first round. He would have won in first past the post too.