Elections Dont Work at All. You Can Blame the Math
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died in December of 2017; the election to replace him was Tuesday. No one knows who won. Partially that\u2019s because the votes are still trickling in. Mail-in ballots merely had to be postmarked by election day, and as I write the city is reporting 87,000 votes yet to be processed. But that\u2019s not the only roadblock. The other problem is math. See, the San Francisco mayoral election isn\u2019t just another whoever-gets-the-most-votes-wins sort of deal.