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Early results released Wednesday afternoon by the city's Department of Elections showed Mr. Lee receiving 61.2% of the vote on ballots counted so far, following the use of a voting method known as ranked-choice that simulates a runoff election.

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Voters in San Francisco will use a system called ranked-choice voting, or instant runoff, to elect a mayor on Tuesday.

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Stateside, about a dozen U.S. cities have taken up ranked-choice voting in recent years, including Minneapolis.

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SAN FRANCISCO—Voters here have used an unorthodox method to pick elected officials since approving the "ranked-choice" approach in 2002.

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In recent years, cities including New York and Los Angeles have considered ranked-choice voting but held off.

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Proponents of ranked-choice voting say it leads to more civility in races, as candidates seek to avoid alienating people who prefer another candidate but might list them as an alternate.

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Unless this poll is conducted as a ranked-choice question, it's not possible to draw conclusions from it.

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San Francisco has used ranked-choice voting in several elections since residents approved it nine years ago, but this is its first competitive mayoral race under the system, and it comes as debate over ranked choice heats up.

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Nato Green is a San Francisco-based stand-up comedian who tours with Laughter Against the Machine, whose national tour wraps up in Oakland November 14 & 15, by which time we'll be on the 3rd round of ranked-choice voting tabulation and have nothing better to do.

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Terry Reilly, a retired engineer and former chairman of the campaign finance review and ethics board in San Jose, Calif., said he became interested in ranked-choice voting, as a private citizen, when San Jose considered the approach but didn't move forward with it.

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