I think provisionals put Reilly back on top. I hope she has observers fighting for every vote.

And note how close the race for school board is. Something like a thousand votes separate 2nd from 4th.

Right now the Guardian slate and the teachers' slate are battling it out. Fortunately, Kim-Shree looks safe, but if there are a whole ton of absentees she can conceivably still fall to 4th place and not get a seat.

I bullet-voted for Kim-Shree. Neither Murase nor Mendoza were acceptable candidates. I considered voting for Brodkin... had second thoughts based on the teachers union dislike for her, and in the end decided to stick with just Kim-Shree precisely because of the possibility of what is occurring now.

Had I given an extra vote to Brodkin (or Murase for that matter), to "fill up" my ballot with candidates that are "lesser evils," I could conceivably hurt the only candidate I actually like. I had advocated bullet-voting for Maufus as the only acceptable candidate for progressives, and nobody really listened, but the results validate my strategy.

Hopefully, probably... Kim-Shree will keep her seat. But it will be close. Lesson of the day: when you have a multi-seat election (UNLIKE single seat, winner-take-all IRV), and there are fewer acceptable candidates than there are seats to be won, bullet-vote for ONLY those who are acceptable!

Farrell should gain a bit more in the absentees. He hasn't gained all that much and they've been counting absentees all week. It *looks* like he gained a bunch but if you look at the first choice ballots, it's only a couple hundred votes. But then... provisionals come in, and that's where he really takes it to the chin.

As for marc's argument, I think he's coming from another angle. He's not talking about the result, but the process. Still, it's just a function of the dynamics of the race -no clear front runner and a multitude of candidates. Marc just doesn't like IRV. Previously he had made the rather bizarre criticism that IRV has never overturned the front-runner in the first round. That criticism now appears to have gone out the window, so now there's a new angle. There will always be an angle to criticize if you don't like the process, as no system can be absolutely perfect.

As for the result in this case... I say thank god for IRV. Had we done it the old way, there would have been a runoff between Tony Kelly and Lynette Sweet. And I guarantee that it would have been a disgusting, race-baiting campaign. Anti-progressives who in fact care nothing about minority representation would have attacked Kelly relentlessly to promote their corporate-backed candidate, and enough African Americans would have listened to those race baiting attacks that there's no way Kelly could have won. As a result we would have poisoned race relations in D10 and come out with an even worse Supervisor than Malia Cohen. I hope Tony Kelly still pulls it out, but even if Malia wins, it's a far better result and a far better process than we would have gotten under the old system.

Oh yeah, and Sweet would have been elected by fewer voters than are participating in the final round of the IRV, so it would have produced big time disenfranchisement of everyone.

I agree, the Guardian deserves a lot of credit for exposing Steve Moss and Lynette Sweet.

I try to support candidates who put serving the community over their own personal ambitions. People like Chris Daly, Matt Gonzalez, Jake McGoldrick, Eric Mar, Eileen Hansen... these folks make me proud to be progressive. No they're not perfect, but love 'em or hate 'em you can't call them sellouts. I saw a little of that ethic of service over self in Debra Walker and Rafael Mandleman. And though I don't know him well, from what I heard, Tony Kelly has it too.

I just don't see the same in Malia Cohen or Jane Kim. Now I know a lot of my progressive friends put a lot of effort into electing Jane Kim. I desperately hope those idealistic supporters are proven right about her, and she doesn't sell them out. And yes, D10 could do much, much worse than Malia Cohen. So yes... it could be worse.

It could be better too.

Greg, I'm finally moved to read a more fair, objective appraisal of Jane Kim by you. Unlike most elected politicians, however, her groundedness and political principles come from the communities, and their respective leaders, including immigrant tenants, that have nurtured and sustained her. Eileen Hansen, certainly, was and is one of the most prominent and talented white LGBT activists in the City that ran for office, who understood this -- (despite her losing effort in District 8 in 2002) -- and why we need to build multiracial, LGBT, immigrant and working-class led urban movements in San Francisco toward social and economic justice for all.

As of Sunday night, Marlene Tran has risen to number 2 spot, behind Tony Kelly, and ahead of Sweet, Cohen and Moss. So, all eyes will be on how the next ranked-choice run pans out.

The latest D10 totals from Elections (see below) illustrate that Tran continues to rise (only 26 votes behind Kelly who is first place in raw totals) and that there are only 134 votes separating Kelly and Moss, in fifth place:

Farrell received a majority of every other candidates second choice vote. Says something about Janet and her crew.

I really don't see the value in doing a ranked choice count until all the votes have been counted particularly in these close races...

For example, the current DOE posted RCV count for D2 shows Farrell "winning" with 50% of the vote but only if this count reflected the total votes cast which it does not. So what's the point? What am I missing?

Why post anything showing a candidate winning when they have not- leading to misleading headlines?

The purpose of an interim ranked-choice count could be to give folks a sense of how the votes will transfer, depending on who is on top. It also shows which candidates' supporters are aligned with other campaigns etc.

As of Monday night, here are the latest counts in D10, once again showing the steady rise of Marlene Tran, who is now on the heels of Tony Kelly, with Lynette Sweet, Steve Moss and Malia Cohen close behind: