ranked choice of voting.o, what is ranked joyce voting? in march 2002 san francisco voters adopted a charter to implement ranked choice of voting, also known as instant runoff voting. san francisco voters will use it to elect most local officials by selecting a first choice candidate in the first column on the ballot and deborah second and third choice candidates in the second and third columns resect to do -- respectively. this makes it possible to elect local officials with the majority of votes. more than 50% without the need for a second runoff election. in san francisco, ranked choice of voting is for the election of members of the board of supervisors, the mayor, sharon, just -- district attorney, city attorney, treasurer, this is a recorder, and public defender. ranked joyce voting does not apply to elections for local school and community college board members. number the election of state or federal officials. ranked choice of voting does not affect the adoption ballot measures. when voters received

that's how ranked choice voting works. the second round of counting starts at city hall this morning. ed lee did not get 50% of the vote even though he is the front runner right now. let's look at the early numbers. ed lee came in with 31%. second place john avalos with 19. dennis herrera in third with 11. david chiu comes in after that. this is before ranked choice votes, the votes for second and third choice. there is a lot of criticism for that process. here's former mayor willie brown. >> every time they drop somebody who is not competitive at that moment, all of those people's votes are gone. and that's not right in a democracy. i want my vote to count. >> reporter: now, lee's campaign as you can see here doing some pre-celebrating last night as the results started coming in. they are confident that enough people made lee their second or third choice to put him over the top. he was appointed interim mayor in january when gavin newsom was elected lieutenant governor and lee has been the perceived front-runner for most

to see all three races to come to ranked choice. it looks like it's down to about a 13 point margin. the oakland raced the margin between ron parada with nine points and ended closer to jean quan winning with 11 points over all. a margin of 9% is significant but it'll be a couple of days before we see the results. >> with a lower turn out does that make the chinese vote even more important here. >> i think there's been a report that showed a lot of energy in the chinese american community in this election. i think we're looking at some where probably between 1/5 being chinese americans. that is a big block in this election. >> what about the race for sheriff to replace mike hennessey. right now it's still early but it's almost narrowly split 30% to 28% for each of the three candidates. is this surprising at all that it's so close? >> no i think there are a lot of undecided voters. i think as voters are looking at this, this is going to be expected that there's going to be a tight race between the candidates. there's a big lead in th

to see all three races to come to ranked choice.looks like it's down to about a 13 point margin. the oakland raced the margin between ron parada with nine points and ended closer to jean quan winning with 11 points over all. a margin of 9% is significant but it'll be a couple of days before we see the results. >> with a lower turn out does that make the chinese vote even more important here. >> i think there's been a report that showed a lot of energy in the chinese american community in this election. i think we're looking at some where probably between 1/5 being chinese americans. that is a big block in this election. >> what about the race for sheriff to replace mike hennessey. right now it's still early but it's almost narrowly split 30% to 28% for each of the three candidates. is this surprising at all that it's so close? >> no i think there are a lot of undecided voters. i think as voters are looking at this, this is going to be expected that there's going to be a tight race between the candidates. there's a big lead in the ca

ranked choice voting. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, have used to control occupy protests. christin ayers shows us the video that has cri >>> tonight there are new questions about the tactics oakland police have allegedly used to control "occupy" protests. christin ayers shows us the video that has some critics claiming excessive force tonight. >> reporter: the video was shot from the point of view an "occupy oakland" supporter. he says he was arbitrarily shot down during a peaceful moment with no provocation and no warning from riot police. it appears to be a relatively quiet moment in frank ogawa plaza thursday morning around 1 a.m. a lone citizen journalist camera rolling suddenly seemingly without provocation shot down by riot police. [ screaming ] >> reporter: scott campbell is the man with the camera. he had just witnessed this explosion of violence. protestors care gassed after trying to take over an abandoned building. campbell was a few blocks away. in a moment of calm he approaches officers and can be heard asking if the distance he is keeping is okay. >> he reali

we hope you have ranked choice learned ranked choice of voting and was elected. you have seen the ballot, learned how to market, and learned how the voting process works. if you have any further questions about ranked choice voting, please contact us at department of elections, city hall, room 48, 1 dr. carlton be good lit place, sentences go, california, 94102. or 415-554-4375. visit our website, www.sfelections.org. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chu: good morning. welcome to the regular budget and finance committee meeting. mr. young, do you have any announcements? >> please turn off all cellphone. please fill out a speaker card if you wish to speak during public comment. items acted upon today will appear in the board of supervisors agenda on november 8, 2011, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: please call item no. 1. >> item #one. resolution authorizing the office of economic and workforce development to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $5,724,203 from the department of labor for tra

but we've got rank -- contenders. but we've got ranked choice. but it does cause confusion. front mayor ed lee with 30%. avalos with 19, herrera 12%. comfortable lead for lee. chiu with 9, yee with 8, adachi with 7. take a look at video. ballots still need to be counted these are absentee and provisional ballots that came in yesterday. it is going to come down to ranked choice. lee last night not waiting for the ranked-choice voting system to kick in. they were having a victory party. seemed to think he was going to win this election. going to end up with 50% plus one. >> it is one thing to be appointed the first asian mayor. but it is another to be confirmed by all of the members of this city. thank you very much. >> reporter: which hasn't happened yet. today the computer program for ranked-choice voting kicks in. they will be taking the second choice for the eliminated candidates start at the bat testimony take those out take that candidate's second choice and bring them in they will be getting up to some of those names we showed you earlier take second picks from those pu

the announcement may not come today, tomorrow, at some point the ranked choice system is going to rank hill the winner this is the scene this morning at if's city hall. >> processing -- at san francisco's city hall. >> processing throughout the day. at 4:00 we'll use the ranked choice method for the first time to give a snapshot of what the outlook is at this point in the election. >> reporter: at 4:00 the ranked-choice voting system will produce candidates from 1 to 16. if the number of votes the top ranked candidate leads by is greater than the number of ballots remaining to be counted. one didn't wait for the final tally. >> thank you san francisco! >> reporter: mayor lee last night sounding like his 30% was 50% plus one. >> i think san francisco wants us to do four more years. >> reporter: is he celebrating too soon? remember the oakland race. >> he had the most first choice votes when you use the rank choice system you bring second and third choices into the tabulation that's where prada lost that could happen here. >> we did it with less money than anyone else we are at second pl

the city's rank choice voting system is drawing criticism tonight. as mark mentioned, final results won't be in for days, but already there is a movement to do away with it. carolyn tile -- carolyn tiler has more on that. >> two supervisors both elected under the rank choice voting system say it is flawed and an undemocratic process, so today on this election day, they introduced what they hope would be a charter amount repealing the system, but meanwhile for this election it was used by a surprisingly low number of voters who turned out. despite the dozens of debates and the weeks of campaigning, this election does not seem to have caught fire with the voters. >> well, it is lower than the last 10 -- the average of the last 10 contests, the turnout for mayor. the average turnout for mayor over the last 10 elections the mayor was on the ballot with 50%. at this point i don't see us hitting 50% for this election. >> for this election for mayor and district attorney and sheriff, the voters are using rank choice voting, picking their favorites, one, two

the announcement may not come today, tomorrow, at some point the ranked choice system is going to rank hill the winner this is the scene this morning at if's city hall. >> processing -- at san francisco's city hall. >> processing throughout the day. at 4:00 we'll use the ranked choice method for the first time to give a snapshot of what the outlook is at this point in the election. >> reporter: at 4:00 the ranked-choice voting system will produce candidates from 1 to 16. if the number of votes the top ranked candidate leads by is greater than the number of ballots remaining to be counted. one didn't wait for the final tally. >> thank you san francisco! >> reporter: mayor lee last night sounding like his 30% was 50% plus one. >> i think san francisco wants us to do four more years. >> reporter: is he celebrating too soon? remember the oakland race. >> he had the most first choice votes when you use the rank choice system you bring second and third choices into the tabulation that's where prada lost that could happen here. >> we did it with less money than anyone else we are at second pl

the city's rank choice voting system is drawing criticism tonight. as mark mentioned, final results won't be in for days, but already there is a movement to do away with it. carolyn tile -- carolyn tiler has more on that. >> two supervisors both elected under the rank choice voting system say it is flawed and an undemocratic process, so today on this election day, they introduced what they hope would be a charter amount repealing the system, but meanwhile for this election it was used by a surprisingly low number of voters who turned out. despite the dozens of debates and the weeks of campaigning, this election does not seem to have caught fire with the voters. >> well, it is lower than the last 10 -- the average of the last 10 contests, the turnout for mayor. the average turnout for mayor over the last 10 elections the mayor was on the ballot with 50%. at this point i don't see us hitting 50% for this election. >> for this election for mayor and district attorney and sheriff, the voters are using rank choice voting, picking their favorites, one, two

the way that works first of all again is you get to vote for three candidates, you rank the order of your preferences, and if one of those candidates on the first count gets 50% plus 1. that's done. that's the key to victory for leland yee. what happens in that situation is the computer then shifts to what is called an instant run off and instead of having a second election it calculates everybody's second and third place choices starting from the bottom of the pile moving up until somebody near the top gets 50% plus 1. >> so in the way area we start started in oakland. >> yeah. >> don prrada seemed to be the frontrunner,. >> interview: he got 35% of the first votes however he is not the mayor of oakland. so what do you think will happen in the san francisco area. >> interview: we're just guessing at this point, and i don't want the discourage anybody who is doing a vote, but probably a different result than what happened in oakland and for this reason, perata is very much a beloved figure but he madden meese as well. so the way to win a ranked choice election as we found out after t

they are likely to rank you first or tenth. so if you are a front-runner who is not going to get 50% plus one, you want to be a warm and fuzzy. like vanilla ice cream. not everybody's first place choice but if they serve it after dinner you would have a taste. ed lee is probably vanilla ice cream in this case. i don't know that he is passionately hated by everybody. i think he is probably in the mix of the top three, four or five candidates. so i think he has a reasonably good chance of being elected in a ranked choice system simply because of his personality. >> before we go, the sheriff race you said is a good example of how this ranked choice voting can have an effect. >> onek finished with 28% and others lower. this will be a classic example of how rank choice votes. the third place candidate, the second and third his voters gave him their first place votes when most seconds and probably thirds get distributed that's going to decide who is going to win between cunnie and mirkarimi. it's possible that seconds and thirds coul

willie brown says he doesn't appear of the rank-choice system. >> rank-choice voting would allow all 16. >> we have some -- why don't we just limit it to three? >> well, that's crazy.. >> i think it's a good thing to have rank-choice voting separate from the runoff which always sees a huge drop off in people turning off to vote. rank-choice voting is a way to do that and show the rally of votes. >> reporter: now, at a post- campaign celebration at the palace hotel, ed lee thanked his supporters. the new mayor will have his work cut out for him with the deficit in the millions. coming up, we will tell you why mc hammer got involved in the campaign this year. some interesting things that he had to say. tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, tara. >>> the district attorney's race is going to round two. george gascon leads with 42% of the vote. david anneck and charmen bock are in a close race for second. ross mirkarimi leads by 3%. chris kunnie, 28%. we'll have more at ktvu.com. >>> we have breaking news now involving a sports section scandal. the most successful college in c

but what happens with ranked choice? >> interview: well it's going to be interesting to see what happens indeed. in most electionings you don't bet against an incumbent because they have all the constitutional advantages of the office at their dispose always but in a ranked choice selection, which is what this is, you're going to rank up to 3 people to be your choice 234 you're voting in san francisco. if you want to do that. you don't have to do that. if you're an incumbent, that means that your front run earthquakes ed lee is the frontrunner, but you got a big bulls-eye on you. what we found in the city of oakland is in the city of oakland, where i ran in the interests of full disclosure, the seconds and thirds, but the people chasing that individual do and that means you don't always want to be at the front of 2 pack unless you can get 50% plus 1 on the first count. >> so do you have a crystal ball that indicates what you think? >> interview: here is the difference betweened lee and.com perata, a very good man but a l

. >> reporter: under rank choice voting he lot of the race even though he had more first place votes. he said it's a poor way to decide elections and should be done away with. >> state elections are on hand for another rank choice election. the race for mayor of san francisco. david stevenson where the drama hasn't turned out to be a rush to the ballot box. >> reporter: the polls open for another two hours but election officials remarking on what appears to be a suggest slubgish race. even as voters showed up to cast their ballots turn out was at 17%. >> for the -- where the mayor it's normally 50%. for us to get up to that was -- has to be a bit of a push on the voters part. >> reporter: the director of elections said he doesn't think rank choice voting discouraging voter turn out but. >> for this election one of the questions of the ballot -- is this the proper method to use. ? >> with the rank choice factor the only way to get around that is to vote for one and eliminate the other two. >> reporter: a voter is also serving as poll inspector. he said he researched to cut through a fi

the current vendor has a system includes the rank-choice voting, for this process. the system that we have is what we can use for san francisco the system that we bought only four years ago. i asked for the board to approve this option, contract the us for an additional three years. i don't know of any other funding source and no one has come forward to say that the money is available for new system. >> can i ask a few questions? but the conversation that we will have, many of us are wondering if we should do this, and if this fits into what we are trying to do. we actually purchased the system and own the equipment that we got with the investment of $9 million about four years ago. it makes no sense to buy this and equipment for $9 million, and use it for four years and then toss this out. there could be a couple of scenarios planned out. this may completely go way, or we could have the rank choice boating, from what this is now. if we would approve this extension, how will we deal with this? we can turn off the module but if we tweak the system, how would we be ab

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rank choice voting is a part of all that. we are trying to do as afternoon as we can within our budget, provide the service, what the voters want. >> one thing that surprised election officials is the low voter turnout. it was just 30%. that compares to a 50% turnout in last november's elections. >>> even though ed lee hasn't officially won the san francisco mayors' race, there was a victory party in his honor last night. willie brown hosted the party at the palace hotel. and on the left m.c. hammer was there as the master of ceremonies. ed lee says he is humbled by the show of support. >> i really thank you from the bottom of my heart and from all of us that we worked so hard to make sure that the city is so hope to everybody, to make sure that we continue the success that this city knows so well. >> now, lee's campaign was supported by many san francisco power brokers, including china town political activist rose pak. >>> although state senator leland gee finished fifth, he hopes somehow the ranked voting will pull him to t

today rank choice voting kicks in. we'll take a look coming up in a live report. >> reporter: i'm amy hollyfield live in oakland. there are some signs to indicate that occupy oakland may soon be coming to an end. at last the cam -- camping part. police appear to be making plans to move in as businesses complain this camp is hurting them. >>> good morning. live look at the embarcadero where dry but chilly. rain in the forecast, but not as much for the weekend. >>> sue hall following your wednesday morning commute. live look at the bay bridge, light here. first reports of a stall westbound on the upper deck. we'll tell you where that is how to get around it in a few minutes. >>> day after election day 5:01 thank you for joining us. i'm kristen sze. >> i'm eric thomas. today the elections department will begin applying the complex ranked voting formula to its mayor's race. terry mcsweeney is live at city hall. >> reporter: right now mayor ed lee has a fairly commanding lead. but it doesn't mean anything yet, because there

choice voting may come into play for the first time where voters rank top three.first, second and third. did you find it confusing with that rank choice voting? >> oh no. >> i vaguely understand it. and i have a cheat sheet at home. >> reporter: speaking of rank choice voting a supervisor today introducing a measure that would put it before voters in june and let the voters decide how they want to vote. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >> abc7 news will buy you the election results as they come in tonight. we'll have live reports at 9:00 and at 11. also get up to the minute results on our website abc7news.com. >>> encouraging news for anyone looking for a job. the labor department says companies in the government posted more than three million openings in september. the most new jobs in three years. but, there's heavy competition for each job. the report says nearly 14 million were out of work in september, an average of four unemployed workers vying for each opening. >> if you are looking for a job we want to help. abc7 news is co-sponsoring a free job fair. katie is

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if it doesn't happen rank voting kicks in. here's the list. we continue to show you some of the early returns. pier 4 percent. devin 4 percent. hall 4 percent. 16 candidates in the race trying to replace interim mayor ed le lee. joanne a two percent. terri has one percent and phil ping has 1%. so far mark a good night for ed lee. >>reporter: yes. i have to say about half hour ago this room was empty. they open the door just a few minutes ago. the place now pretty packed. the turn out today for the voting not nearly as hard as here. only a third of the absentee ballot returned as of yesterday. ed lee campaign is telling me they would be surprised to see a 35 percent turn out for the election and historically mayor race average closer to 50%. ed lee backer taking some comfort in the reports that absentee voting in the chinese american neighborhoods of san francisco coming in stronger than in other parts of the city. campaign spokesman telling me 60 percent of the voting may from vote by mail ballot which would be a new record for the city. and t

choice voting may come into play for the first time where voters rank top three.first, second and third. did you find it confusing with that rank choice voting? >> oh no. >> i vaguely understand it. and i have a cheat sheet at home. >> reporter: speaking of rank choice voting a supervisor today introducing a measure that would put it before voters in june and let the voters decide how they want to vote. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >> abc7 news will buy you the election results as they come in tonight. we'll have live reports at 9:00 and at 11. also get up to the minute results on our website abc7news.com. >>> encouraging news for anyone looking for a job. the labor department says companies in the government posted more than three million openings in september. the most new jobs in three years. but, there's heavy competition for each job. the report says nearly 14 million were out of work in september, an average of four unemployed workers vying for each opening. >> if you are looking for a job we want to help. abc7 news is co-sponsoring a free job fair. katie is

are counting the final mail-in ballots first tallying voters' first choices and then applying the ranked choice formula. >> ed lee did well as a front- runner. but that lead is still precarious. [ applause and cheers ] >> reporter: lee was appointed mayor in january. if he wins he will make history again as the first elected asian-american mayor of san francisco. >> mayor lee continues to enjoy fairly broad popularity among most voters despite some of the nasty attacks. a lot of the other votes will get redirected. mayor legal will get a lot of people's -- lee will get a lot of people's second and third votes. >> nothing is final until the certification. until now, anything until 2 to 2.5 weeks is preliminary. >> reporter: on the other side of the bay last election season, the candidate with most first place votes don perata did not become mayor. our cbs 5 political analyst says we could see a similar pattern in san francisco. >> what's not known is whether any of the top five or six candidates with the meat of the votes in this race had side arrangements with one another like oakland wh

i am here to talk about rank choice of voting.he political consultants in this time who hated because they cannot figure out who is winning. they cannot serve their clients the way they want to. political consultants are nice people and all, i am sure that. please consider the rest of us and what makes better elections for the rest of us when you vote on this issue. critics are blaming ranked choice voting for low turnout. nationally, turnout is down. did you know san francisco ranks among the largest 22 cities in america regarding turnout at the most recent mayoral election? i have the data for you and i will leave it for you. there's a lot of talk about majorities. you have to pick your poison on this one. your choices are between exhausted ballots that have averaged 19% in the contest for have exhausted voters. the 37% fewer rudder shall run. december runoffs where nobody votes. that is the real disenfranchisement. did you know that in the runoff between 2000 and 2003, in eight out of 14 contests, the winner of the first-round

is a move to end rank choice voting in san francisco elections. there is a resolution calling for a return to the runnoff system. vic lee is live tonight with the story. vic? >> supervisor elseburn and mark farrow introduced a resolution today. rank choice voting was approved by san francisco voters more than eight years ago. and since then, it's generated controversy and confusion. so today, we went down here to city hall and asked voters here to tell us just how this works. >> my wife tried to explain to it me. you know? one ear, out the other. >> i'd have to be a physicist to tell you. >> the person with the highest number one vote, the -- however many seconds, second choice votes has a different, lower weight. and so forth. so each categories of votes has a different weight. >> many people don't understand how it works. >> plain, simple is why the supervisor is proposing a charter amendment to end rank choice voting in this city. if a candidate receives a majority, he wins. if not, the last place candidate is eliminated and those who chose tha

the 8th ranked cardinals need a win to have a chance at a bcs bowl game. one member of the stanford defense says there is added motivation. >> we're prepared for these guys like we prepare for anybody else. definitely a little bit something extra. guys are likely to be a little more pissed off this week. we're trying to get the taste out of our mouth. we're not used to losing. >>> stanford beats uc davis in college basketball, and the oklahoma state women's basketball team is mourning the deaths right now of two coaches. kim coyle has more with sports. >>> good morning, everyone. oklahoma state women's basketball head coach kurt budke and assistant miranda serna were killed in a plane crash after a recruiting trip in arkansas. the cowboys football team taking the field with heavy hearts. second ranked oklahoma state blew a 24-7 lead and may have cost itself a spot in the national title game. the game-winning touchdown in double overtime, as the cyclones stun the cowboys to end their perfect season and shake up the bcs. >>> in college hoops, stanford improv

. -- rank choice of voting does not worke. supervisor avalos: i am actually stunned that the very day we have -- the very day of the election before we have even put it to rest, you are talking about a charter amendment to limit any rank choice voting peer we had an election already with the mayor's race was in question in 2007. the establishment did not make any complaints whatsoever. this is -- i understand how you might want to have the discussion or possible charter amendment coming forward after there has been some kind of analysis about the election, how it got carried out, but to move forward with the elimination of it on the very day of the election before it has been put to rest, i think that is rather it -- rabit zealousness. to bring this forward on the very day of the election seems like a cheap publicity stunt. >> supervisor elsbernd. supervisor elsbernd: [inaudible] roll call is typically not a time when we take shots at one another. the analysis about all the events that have transpired since 2004, and one littl

rank choice voting has been controversial. but it's designed to help save money by preventing a runoff which can cost millions of dollars. it's also a big day for minority candidates. if elected, san francisco could put in office its first openly gay mayor, first latino or asian-american. >> at this point it looks like the three leading candidates are going to be a first for san francisco. the first latino or chinese- american mayor. >> reporter: it's not just the mayor's race that's at hand here. san francisco will also be voting for a new district attorney and sheriff and pension reform is on the ballot. back to you. >> thank you. >>> several bay area cities do have mayoral races today. they include livermore, san rafael and vallejo. newark will elect a new mayor for the first time since the 1970s, that's because dave smith retiring after 33 years as mayor one of the longest runs in the country. sunnyvale will decide on measure a to allow voters to elect the mayor. there are city council and school board races throughout muc

the gang's senior ranks are split in two. one faction that's in power, and the other that's trying to take over. now the question is whether the attack by the atgs and vice lords will remain an isolated incident. or whether it will spark a bigger war on multiple fronts. that's what investigators have to find out quickly. they're leaning on many different sources for intel. including an inmate whom we've been calling franklin. he belongs to the side of gangster disciples plotting a takeover against their current leaders. >> people are smelling that blood in the water right now. that you guys aren't on the same page. so they're taking some of you guys. >> they're taking me. let's make this plain and simple. >> it's the vice lord aspect is what i'm more worried about than the atg aspect. >> i don't condone what they did. but i don't see nothing changing in the relationship with the vice lords and the ges right now. with all the deposition. the last couple of years have been a peace treaty. so i don't think the gds. >> so basical