vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data... has the full cast vote record at the bottom, you can find results from other offices linked on that site too

Walking into ax man it's a total crapshoot whether I will wind up saving myself a project or signing up for a new one

Who ranked Brenda? She only got 767 first round votes but was ranked on 10,200 ballots. Frey was the most common first choice for those who dared to dream

Frey dominates among people writing in random names. The most common ballot including at least one undeclared write-in (UWI) was: "Frey, UWI, UWI."

If you leave the 1st choice blank your 2nd choice just gets counted the same. How did those mavericks vote?

Total with 1st choice undervote: 542
2nd choices:
undervote 365
Jacob Frey 74
Omar Fateh 66
DeWayne Davis 11
Jazz Hampton 8
overvote 5

It's midnight, time to get dumber. Who is the median voter? The CSV of all cast votes isn't obviously sorted, so let's just take the middlest row (73851 out of 147702) as the median voter:

'Minneapolis W-3 P-11', 'Omar Fateh', 'DeWayne Davis', 'Jazz Hampton'

DeWayne wins the "Mr. #2" award for being the most second-ranked. The only one to beat out no 2nd choice!

DeWayne Davis: 38,860
undervote: 35,218
Jazz Hampton: 31,783
Omar Fateh: 16,837
Jacob Frey: 12,890

I don't think a Fateh vs Frey match would've had a much different result. Frey was pushing that narrative because he thought he'd benefit from it.
If RCV failed us, it was because Davis and Hampton split the center-left lane, which kept one of them from jumping ahead of Fateh like Knuth did in 2021

I was just as offended by them describing Frey as "left"

When we started this campaign a year ago, most people thought Omar had no shot, in the end over 44% of voters chose our vision. It’s because we ran a campaign about the issues that matter to working people, and the change we want to see in our city. While being outspent over 4-1.

And you get no points for theorizing a hypothetical perfect candidate! Get back to me when you have successfully convinced such a person to run for mayor

Am I understanding correctly that this is just dividing tax burden proportionally to the assessed land value (instead of land+structures) on the property tax statement? I've heard those can be somewhat arbitrary, I'm sure it's still directionally correct

I have a feeling I also wasn't the only DFL delegate who felt culpable for the Fine endorsement after it blew through and made a point of talking up EHB as penance

I was so close to going back to Touch Grass grad school. This U job was my compromise