There's still discussion over the new Oakland Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) system, with the latest article suggesting that a number of voters didn't understand it. Well, that's wrong headed and an insult to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan that's starting to sound like that high-pitched whine journalists make over the sale of The Huffington Post to AOL. Look, the November election's over and Quan won. Moreover, Jean Quan won because a healthy number of voters did understand RCV - enough to product an incredible outcome. In our election recap, Oakland City Attorney John Russo actually explained how Quan could win over Don Perata, who scored about 35 percent of the first-choice votes, before she won, then said that the possibility of Quan getting three-quarters of the second-place and third-place votes was so remote , it wouldn't happen. See this video: But guess what? It did happen . Russo actually called it. Moreover, it means, once again, that Quan and Oakl
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