{"id":2470,"date":"2009-11-03T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2009-11-03T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:15:46","slug":"first_second_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2470","title":{"rendered":"First, Second, Third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis had elections today for mayor, city council, and assorted municipal offices. This was Minneapolis&#8217; first election using the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instant-runoff_voting\">instant runoff voting system<\/a>, which allows voters to rank their choices for candidates in a particular race. There aren&#8217;t any particularly close races this year, so I&#8217;m not sure to what extent the instant-runoff feature will come into play, but it does away with cumbersome primary elections and might actually give some third-party candidates a better shot at winning elections, especially if the major-party candidates are unlikeable. I&#8217;d love to see the entire state switch to IRV, but it may take a few more election cycles to prove to the voters in rural Minnesota that IRV isn&#8217;t some pinko funny business that us Minneapolis liberal elites dreamed up at one of our wine-and-cheese parties. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis had elections today for mayor, city council, and assorted municipal offices. This was Minneapolis&#8217; first election using the instant runoff voting system, which allows voters to rank their choices for candidates in a particular race. There aren&#8217;t any particularly close races this year, so I&#8217;m not sure to what extent the instant-runoff feature will <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2470' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-DQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}