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Council members were considering putting the question on November\u2019s ballot but abandoned those plans, citing cost concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sacramentomovinghub.com\/?p=688\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder Plans to Return to Office After Mental Health Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If approved, San Jos\u00e9 would become the largest California city to adopt some form of ranked choice voting. The system asks voters to rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, second- and third-choice votes are redistributed to determine a winner \u2014 removing the need for the city to hold a subsequent runoff election.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sacramentomovinghub.com\/?p=686\">This Corpse Flower Smells Like Death and People Love It<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sacramentomovinghub.com\/?p=690\">California Lawmaker Warns Faster Vote Count Would Disenfranchise Voters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council punted a plan to ask voters to allow ranked choice voting until 2028, citing concerns about the cost of putting the measure on the ballot this November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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