MinneapolisMayor Jacob Frey (D) is fending off a field of more than a dozen candidates in the city’s first municipal elections since the police killing of George Floyd. Frey is pressing voters to trust him with a second term so that he can continue reforming the police. Minneapolis uses ranked-choice voting to select a mayor, meaning voters ranked their top-three choices. If none of the candidates received a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate would be eliminated, and their votes would be distributed to the voters’ second-choice candidates. The process would be repeated until one of the candidates collected more than half the votes.

Source: Washington Post November 02, 2021 05:31 UTC