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Boudin got the most votes in the first round. He would have won in first past the post too.

It can be a bad option, but still the best of the alternatives.

You can look up who lost. Basically an “old timer” Democrat and a “hard(er) on crime upstart”.

Not sure we got the least worst.

I meant ranked choice can be the least worst way of conducting democratic elections.

Individual results will still rightly depend on voters. You can blunt the attraction of extremism, but hearts and minds need shifting before voters will take a fundamentally different approach.

The alternatives might have been even worse.