California Secretary of State Debra Bowen officially certified Alameda County’s new voting system this afternoon, thereby allowing Oakland to hold only one election next year — in November. The election would feature instant-runoff voting, also known as ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank their top choices in an election, and thus eliminate the need for a costly primary. A super majority of Oakland voters approved instant-runoff voting in 2006 with 69 percent of the vote. San Francisco has been using the system for several years.
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