Thursday, March 15, 2007

Ed Jew

Ed is a San Francisco supervisor, like on the Town Council. He was elected in something of a fluke, rising from the pack with a new system in San Francisco called, ranked choice. I don't know exactly how it works, like voting for the three top choices and then each choice has some weight. Regardless, Ed became the winner. Part of his platform was the fact that San Francisco should concern itself with the business of running San Fran and not world events, i. e., impeaching the President and getting out of Iraq.

But, Ed doesn't want to take valuable time away from fixing pot holes, horrendous traffic, ripoff of its citizen with millions collected on parking tickets, on and on. Ed Jew says let's cut it out and get away from this idiocy of all these ridiculous pronouncements. And, does it escape anybody that this supervisor's name is Ed Jew. Is there anything more American than such a name and of all things, this all American named guy thinks San Francisco is silly.

1 comment:

Jack said...

Ranked choice voting, or IRV (instant runoff voting) in this case, is pretty straightforward. You rank candidates in order of preference. You may rank as many or as few as you want; it does not hurt you to use all of your rankings. If your first choice doesn't have enough votes to win, your ballot counts toward your second choice. The idea is to elect someone with strong core support who is at least palatable to a majority of voters - something that doesn't usually happen when 3 or more candidates run.

For more information, see FairVote.