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The Cities Blog

Court reporters interview veterans for the record

Court reporters interview veterans for the record

Eleven Minnesota military veterans will add their accounts of wartime service to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project with the help of Paradigm Court Reporting and Captioning.
by Dan Olson

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Defeated Minneapolis councilwoman: ‘A sense of anti-incumbency’

Two-term Minneapolis City Council member Diane Hofstede says voters favored fresh candidates over experience in Tuesday’s election. Hofstede was defeated by first-time candidate Jacob Frey, 32. “There was a sense of anti-incumbency,” Hofstede said. “I really felt that there was a strong focus on youth versus abilities. And that seemed to be a strong point in the information that was conveyed during the campaign.”
by Liala Helal

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Minneapolis finishes counting ballots Friday night

Three full days after voters cast their ballots in the Minneapolis municipal elections, the results are in. Election workers finished tabulating the ranked-choice voting totals in seven remaining races on Friday evening.
by Jon Collins

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Hodges declared winner in Minneapolis

Two days after Minneapolis voters went to the polls to elect a new mayor, the city has declared DFLer Betsy Hodges the official winner of the contest.
by Jon Collins

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Councilwoman Betsy Hodges elected mayor of Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Betsy Hodges, a Democratic member of the Minneapolis City Council, has been elected as the mayor of Minnesota’s largest city. Hodges emerged as the winner Thursday night. She received the most votes of the 35 candidates but fell shy of an outright majority. Minneapolis uses ranked-choice voting, which lets people make up Read more →
by Robert Boos

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Number of candidates is cause of delay in election results

As vote counting continues in the Minneapolis race, advocates of ranked-choice voting say the delay in results has nothing to do with the relatively new election system. Advocates with FairVote Minnesota say reasons for the delay include the high number of candidates on the ballot, and the city ordinance that established the voting method doesn’t Read more →
by Liala Helal

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Ranked-choice voting gets mostly good reviews

Ranked-choice voting gets mostly good reviews

This year’s election in Minneapolis was the first major test of ranked-choice voting in Minnesota and the first time it came into play in a hotly contested mayor’s race. So far, most of the reviews are good, even though Minneapolis still hasn’t finished counting the votes. Most voters took the time to pick up to Read more →
by Curtis Gilbert

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