I got a flyer in the mail today about the upcoming Minneapolis elections. Apparently, we’ll be using ranked choice voting:
I know people tend to have pretty strong feelings one way or the other about ranked choice voting, though I have to admit I’m not really well informed enough on the issue and how it affects things to really have a strong opinion. However, in reading over the flyer, I did find the candidates and their party affiliations interesting, let’s zoom in on that a bit:
I like it. Though a little odd that a couple of the parties fielded multiple candidates for the same race. Someone dropped the ball on strategy there, or there’s some rebels in the party.
On a vaguely related note, does anyone remember the Giant Sloth Party (named for the full sized (huge) giant sloth in the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History) that used to run for positions in the University of Iowa student government? Are they still around?