Thursday, Feb. 22 @ 4:20 p.m. / Pollz
RANKED CHOICE POLL! Who Should Be California's Next Senator?
The Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein for 30 years is up for grabs, people! But before it can be filled California voters must head to the polls for the March 5 primary and whittle the field of candidates down to two.
I mean, that’s one way you could do things, but LoCO is impatient. So we’re gonna run these candidates — or the six highest-polling ones, at least — through our slick ranked choice voting machine so we can pick a winner today (or tomorrow, really).
(Note: The State of California does not recognize LoCO Polls as a legitimate voting process… yet.)
Now, let’s do the democracy thing, Humboldt! If you’re new to LoCO ranked choice voting, all you have to do is drag and drop the candidates below into the order of your preference and then submit your e-ballot. A more in-depth explanation of how this all works can be found on a previous poll here.
1,255 votes cast.
Poll’s closed!
Results
This poll is closed.
The winner was: Katie Porter (D).
There were 1,252 ballots cast, so the winner needed to get to 627 votes to win.
Here’s how the vote broke down:
ROUND 1
Eric Early (R) was eliminated, and those 86 votes were transfered to the voters’ next preference that is still in contention.
ROUND 2
James P. Bradley (R) was eliminated, and those 135 votes were transfered to the voters’ next preference that is still in contention.
ROUND 3
Barbara Lee (D) was eliminated, and those 205 votes were transfered to the voters’ next preference that is still in contention.
ROUND 4
Steve Garvey (R) was eliminated, and those 369 votes were transfered to the voters’ next preference that is still in contention.
ROUND 5
Katie Porter (D) is the winner.
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