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Tyranny of the minority gets complicated

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Allan Classen
Oct 01, 2024
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Charter reform was supposed to make city elections free and clean, but in the first test of the system, all-new ways to game the system have emerged.

The promise was that ranked-choice voting would turn rival candidates into teammates. Negative campaigning would go and cooperation would be in.

Even political insiders thought contenders c…

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