Who's really shaken up over this, the face that a candidate with a plurality of first-place votes at the start eventually loses? especially in Oakland, and also in San Francisco?
Entrenched politicians who align with relatively centrist stances? Yep. Like mayors Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom of Oakland and San Fran, and their acolytes.
That said, the system there is still flawed, in that voters only get to rank their top three choices, in what is called ranked voting, and technically isn't a full-blown instant runoff system.
As the story notes, one Oakland city council race had 21 candidates; extending ranking for one's top three choices only isn't right. It isn't broad enough.
Nonetheless, it's a start.
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