"But this time the rules are different. This is the city's first competitive mayor's race to use public financing and ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank their top three choices so a winner can be declared even if he or she doesn't get a majority of first-place votes.
This year is also the first time a complicated public financing system will be used in the mayor's race, where raising certain levels of private money scores candidates chunks of public cash. The big prize is $900,000 from the city after raising $575,000 in private, local contributions."
Public Financing and Ranked Choice Voting mix things up in the SF mayor's race
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