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Friday, September 10, 2010

D10 Candidates Should Disclose Their #2 and #3 Ballot Choices

We have 22 candidates in the race for District 10 supervisor. Obviously, only one can win. We've had some very strong endorsements come out recently, plus some rather tepid ones, from across the city. It's a reality that there are only a few candidates who have a shot at actually winning the seat, and many more who don't.


Obviously, each candidate is going to put themselves, and tell supporters to put them, in the #1 position, but would it be too much to ask of every candidate to indicate whom THEY would endorse to go in the #2 and #3 position on the ranked-choice ballot? I don't think that this would detract from anyone's candidacy in the least, but it would give their supporters an idea whom their favorite would choose themselves.

If some candidates are on the ballot to help bring out the vote of traditionally under-represented communities, then people from those communities may be voting in a local election for the first time, may not know that they can make three choices, may not know how the ranked-choice system works, and as such, may only vote for their favorite candidate who brought them to the polls in the first place, leaving the other two positions blank. If their candidate gets dropped in the rounds of the ranked-choice system, then that voter who voted for them won't actually get to have a voice after all if they haven't also put someone's name in for #2 and #3.

Candidates, please think about endorsing your fellow candidates for the #2 and #3 slots.