WHAC-A-MOLE

When Sheng Thao ran for mayor, she didn’t win the most votes in the first round of vote-counting. Her opponent did. But Oakland has ranked-choice voting, so the clerk kept counting, round after round, until Thao finally w on on the ninth round of the algorithm. The funny thing is, she shouldn’t even have been on the ballot at all. She missed the filing deadline, but a city employee faked the timestamp.