6 hats in ring for S.F. mayor’s race
Heather Knight, John Coté, Chronicle Staff Writers
Sunday, February 6, 2011
The race to become San Francisco‘s next mayor is on.
With interim Mayor Ed Lee firmly in place, six serious candidates have laced up their running shoes for what could be a mad dash to fill City Hall’s Room 200 for the next four years – and several more are expected to join them for the Nov. 8 election.
But this time the rules are different. This is the city’s first competitive mayor’s race to use public financing and ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank their top three choices so a winner can be declared even if he or she doesn’t get a majority of first-place votes.
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