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...This strategy of scaling back to prevent mistakes “would have been great for my campaign,” Voith says. He adds that trouncing a team experienced with UC campaign strategy would be “very difficult...
...There’s a lot of disenchantment with how the UC has been run. Matt Sundquist has played a large role [in that],” Willey says. “With everything that’s gone wrong in the last year, I think they are more vulnerable than past establishment tickets...
Unlike most American elections, where the candidate who wins is simply the one with the most votes, the UC candidate with the most first-place votes does not automatically win the election...
Instead, the UC uses a system where voters are allowed to rank their preferred candidates instead of voting for a single one—a system that many experts say better represents voters’ true preferences...
...most jurisdictions, implementing an instant-runoff scheme is more expensive and time-consuming because it requires multiple simulated runoffs. This drawback is not a critical concern for the UC, however, as the adoption of electronic voting has made the council’s elections easy to administer...