"District 1 voters ended up going against the dual endorsement Haggerty gave headed into the election -- he had offered his support to Hernandez and Wieckowski."

Because voters only have one vote, to me it seems like the center-left split the vote between the two, so the "far-left" and the "center-right" come out in the end.

The people I know were split between the two pretty evenly. I think there would have been a different result if one of them didn't run or if we had ranked choice voting.

question for clarification to first post by sjd.
"The people I know were split between the two pretty evenly. I think there would have been a different result if one of them didn't run or if we had ranked choice voting."

what is 'ranked choice voting?'

thanks

Vinnie Bacon for Alameda County Supervisor

Hi Mary,

Ranked choice voting is a way of voting by allowing people to "rank" who they want on their ballot.

The short answer is that it usually results in more "centrist" people winning, but the other advantage is that if two similar people run, it wouldn't hurt them because their vote doesn't get "split" between the two of them.

This applies whether it's two GOP candidates or two Green candidates or two Dem candidates.

How it works: let's say you were center right, generally. You'd probably vote 1 for a center-right candidate. Then vote 2 for a center left candidate, and so on.

The person with the least number of "1" votes gets eliminated, and the votes of those people get distributed to their "2" vote. Then again the person with the least votes gets eliminated, until there is only one person left.