Category: Government 2.0
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San Francisco politics activists take to New York this Sunday as part of the book tour for “The Political Edge,” a collection of essays inspired by the Matt Gonzalez for Mayor campaign, published by the City Lights Foundation. Marlena Sonn and James Tracy plan “a reading and discussion about cities, transformational politics, community organization, community…
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Hard-core San Francisco political analysts are eagerly ripping into the rich data trove available through the Department of Elections due to use of ranked-choice voting. While scares over “black box voting” – electronic tallies without a paper trail – persist in other parts of the country, San Francisco’s election is a model of transparency. The…
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Contrary most post-Nov. 2 punditry, the election wasn’t a total rout for gay rights. In Cincinnati, urban Democrats overwhelmingly repealed an 11-year-old ban on gay rights laws. …
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Ross Mirkarimi, a “none of the above” delegate to the national Green Party presidential convention earlier this year, voted for John Kerry and John Edwards, reluctantly. … (And he’s a leader in the California party, not the leader. Gotta love editing.)
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The Body Politic this week included some quick data analysis to point out the strength of certain candidates who didn’t win their ranked choice races. Caleb Kleppner of the Center for Voting and Democracy was gracious enough to provide a more detailed analysis of Nov. 10 unofficial DOE tallies based on a few Examiner questions.…
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There’s an interesting twist in the RCV/IRV numbers at the DOE that make it look like there are a higher number of exhausted ballots due to the new system. “Falloff,” the term used to describe less votes for down-ticket items in a presidential election, is combined with the “exhausted” tally in the DOE numbers. The…
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A short profile of Supe-elect Ross Mirkarimi in today’s Ex. His victory party is tonight at Mad Dog in the Fog in the Haight. …
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Steve Hill, the grand protector of IRV, responds to criticism from CAVEC: 1. CAVEC’s study suffers from serious methodological flaws. The biggest methodological flaw is that CAVEC inexplicably lumps together voters who “dislike” ranked choice voting (RCV) with voters who have “no opinion” about whether they like RCV (see pages 5 and 6 of the…
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Supervisor Chris Daly was none to happy with the news coverage today. In a close-talking encounter with the passionate supe, Daly argued that he’s a street activist who happens to have won office on that merit, and therefore shouldn’t be expected to act like a statesman. He also praised the spirit of aide Lena Gomes,…
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City Hall mischief-maker h brown paid Matt Gonzalez for his legal services with a 6-pack of Black Toad beer from Trader Joe’s. Hey, what happened to pro bono? …
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