So the president's gonna gibber through an interview with Kenny Albert in the 3rd quarter of this Lions/Commanders game? Good thing I got Cardinals/Seahawks on the other channel I guess

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Of note: Davis voters who moved to Fateh: 12,607 Hampton to Frey: 6,623 Hampton to Fateh: 5,611 Davis to Frey: 4,727 Davis to Exhausted: 3,080 Hampton to Exhausted: 3,055 Others to Exhausted: 2,121

LAST ONE: MINNEAPOLIS PARK BOARD DISTRICT 5 After Round 2, Kay Carvajal Moran was declared the winner. Carvajal Moran 14,237 52.9% (+1336 from Round 1) Musich 10,932 40.6% (+1143 from Round 1) Exhausted after first round 1,728 Undervotes 7,571

While we wait for the final race, here's the visualization showing who understood the assignment and who didn't in the mayoral race. You can get a whole lotta numbers by moving your cursor around the copy over at vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

More about the Minneapolis Park Board At Large race: Ranked choice results: Eliminated in Round 2: Undeclared write-ins, Turner In Round 3: Schneider, Dowgwillo In Round 4: McKelvey FUN FACT: 34,354 undervotes is greater than ANY candidate's final ballot count (Forney 34,085 before redistribution)

Somewhere in here Minneapolis snuck in Park Board At-Large results - they did five rounds, elected Meg Forney, did a fractional redistribution thing I never understood and added Tom Olsen and Amber Frederick. ✅Forney 28,338 (25%) ✅Olsen 27,487 (24.3%) ✅Frederick 23,187 (20.5%) Wilson 19,978 (17.6%)

Oh! There's a little slide-y thing at the bottom of the results page. I was close but off by 1: Garcia 10,142 (+636 from Round 1) Colby 8,939 (+488 from Round 1) Exhausted 611 vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

Minneapolis now says Jason Garcia wins Park Board District 4 but this looks like an incomplete picture of how Round 2 turned out. Napkin math guesses: Garcia ~10141 "51.5%" Colby ~8940 "45.4%" Exhausted ~611 Undervotes 6,838

While we wait for the Park Board District 4 results, I will note that if I understand whichever language is being spoken at the MplsVote website, it appears there could be as many as 6,863 undervotes (of 26,530 ballots... 25.9%) in this race

Minneapolis now says yeah, Dan Engelhart definitely won the Park Board District 1 race after all. New percentages now seem to take into account that there were 5,478 undervotes, removing them before determining a lower 50%+1 threshold (maybe?) Engelhart 9,641 59.1% Miller 6,582 40.4%

FUN FACT: In the Minneapolis Board of Estimate & Taxation race, "left my ballot blank" (41,020 undervotes, 38.5% of the vote) nestled firmly in second place between winners, finishing ahead of Steve Brandt (35,911 33.7%) but behind Eric Harris Bernstein (42,829 40.1%)

Minneapolis now says that in the Board of Estimate & Taxation race, actually one round was fine (unless you were NAMED Fine, hyuk hyuk) and we all imagined them saying they would need to go to ranked choice voting and a second round. EHB and Steve Brandt are elected to the BET.

WARD 5: Pearll Warren wins after Round 2 Warren 2,437 48.4% Burnett 1,723 34.2% Total 5,037 Undervotes 537 (napkin math gets me Exhausted 340)

The hits keep on coming. Minneapolis declares Pearll Warren the next Ward 5 council member

Napkin math on Round 2 reallocation: Fateh 18,763 47.86% Frey 12,279 31.32% Exhausted 8,163 20.82% (I too am exhausted)

We now return you to mostly my occasional random thoughts about professional wrestling, NASCAR and a whole lotta links to Pixelfed 'grams of concerts I'm attending (I'll still try to give you some real-time results of the other races)

MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR: Final vote after Round 2 Frey 73,723 50.03% Fateh 65,377 44.37% All others Eliminated after Round 1 And I received one #1 ranking (thanks, me!)

There's now a tweet

You hate to see it (especially without Round 2 results) Page now updated to say Jacob Frey is the unofficial winner of the Minneapolis mayoral race vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

There is no truth to the rumour that counting votes for me is what's causing the delay in announcing any Round 2 results in the Minneapolis election

Since we're all waiting and I want my new followers to feel like they're getting something... Because of rule changes after the 2013 election (33 rounds, took forever) now they eliminate everybody who "can't win" all at once. This leaves Frey and Fateh as the only two left ... 1/

Sure enough, no tweets yet

Mornin' Minneapolis will start ranking 'em out at 9. Mayor, Ward 5, Parks At-Large, District 1, 4, 5 and BET. Not sure in what order. Unfortunately, they're only posting results on their website and Twitter. Also unfortunately, I have a 9am meeting so I can't bring 'em over here in real time.

I couldn't sleep. I already can tell today's gonna be a fun day at the (return to) office

FUN FACT: MAMDANI

FUN FACT: I am apparently the only declared write-in candidate across ALL Minneapolis offices in 2025. I'm very disappointed in some of you right now.

FUN FACT: Minneapolis says Dan Englehart technically hasn't won the Park Board District 1 election yet since no candidate got to 50%+1 (about 5,500 didn't vote at all). They have to go to R2 and see if and who the 88 undeclared write-ins ranked #2, even with no way Miller (-3,057) can overtake him.

UPDATE: There are 39,205 ballots that didn't rank Frey or Fateh #1. Minneapolis says if Frey picks up 12,512 votes, he wins outright. If Fateh picks up 27,342 votes, he wins outright. After Round 1, Fateh (46,510 votes) trails Frey (61,340) by 14,830 votes. vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

IMPORTANT: Minneapolis says I was the only person to file as a write-in and we'll see how many of the 113 write-ins were for me on Wednesday. (Over/under is 2.) vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

Minneapolis says we DO need to go to a Round 2 to decide BET. For the life of me I don't see how EHB and Brandt don't end up the two winners but they didn't pass the threshold to NOT have RCV so we'll go through the motions some time Wednesday. vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

Over in St Paul, they went ahead and ran Round 2 of ranked choice voting tonight so we already know Mayor Melvin Carter has been defeated by Kaohly Her. Carter received more #1 rankings but Her overtook Carter in Round 2. Could something similar happen in Minneapolis? We'll have to sleep on it.

Robin won by 37.5 points. Close enough for government work AMIRITE

It'll all come down to whether or not the "Rank All 3" people truly Didn't Rank Frey.

What's the one precinct who apparently hasn't reported? Looks like it's Ward 12 Precinct 2 in the Howe neighborhood

NAPKIN MATCH (136 of 137 precincts reporting) Frey #1 60,735 Fateh #1 46,131 (-14,604) All Other #1 38,585 If NO ballots were exhausted, Fateh needs a 38 pt win (69%-31%) in Round 2 to pass Frey BUT ballots will be exhausted + Frey won't get 31% in R2 Still, Fateh needs 14,605+++ R2 votes to win

There you go. EHB and Steve Brandt are your winners!

Let me correct my own text, Jason Garcia has 9,502 votes. More napkin math: Colby would need to be ranked #2 on over 60% of the Gebo/write-in ballots WITHOUT Garcia getting a SINGLE additional vote to even make up that current 1,063 vote deficit.

Or DO we go to ranked choice? Both of the top two have more than 33⅓% so how does RCV work here?