Alameda County Registrar Admits Rank Choice Voting Problem Mike Hutchinson Wins Oakland School Board

Alameda County Registrar Admits Rank Choice Voting Problem Mike Hutchinson Wins Oakland School Board
Tim Dupuis, the Alameda County Registrar issued this press release after Oakland School Board Candidate Mike Hutchinson claimed victory and stated that the Alameda County Registrar personally told him that an error in Rank Choice Voting was found and that he won the November 2022 Election for that school board seat. Here is the press release: RANKED-CHOICE VOTING FINAL TALLIES Several jurisdictions use Ranked-Choice Voting (“RCV”) to conduct their elections in the County of Alameda.  The ROV learned that its RCV tally system was not configured properly for the November 2022 General Election. It should have been configured to advance ballots to the next ranking immediately when no candidate was selected for a particular round. This means that if no candidate was selected in the first round on the ballot, then the second-round ranking would count as the first-round ranking, the third-round ranking would count as the second round ranking, and so on. For the November 2022 General Election, the setting on the County’s equipment counted the RCV ballots in the manner in which the ballot was completed, meaning no vote was registered for those ballots in the first round of counting because those voters did not identify a valid candidate in a particular rank on the ballot.   Once it became of aware of the issue, the ROV immediately investigated it. The ROV worked with its vendor to figure out the source of the issue and to resolve it. After reviewing the election data and applying the correct configuration, the ROV learned that only one outcome was affected: Oakland School Director, District 4, for the Oakland Unified School District.  No other result for any RCV election in any jurisdiction was changed.  The ROV has notified the City of Oakland, Oakland Unified School District, School Director District 4 candidates, and the Secretary of State. The ROV is currently working with its vendor to provide safeguards so that this does not happen in future elections. Contact: Alameda County Registrar of Voters (510) 272-6933 Everyone Agrees This Means The Entire Election Must Be Redone. Everyone I have talked to sees this as proof there was a problem with the vote. I called Loren Taylor, Mayor-Elect Sheng Thao's challenger, and while he's not ready to go public with any statement, is very concerned about the news. Stay tuned.
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