SAN FRANCISCO / 'Ranked' vote gets fanciful scenarios / Analyst predicts a change in the political culture:

"'It's very important for the strategy of a candidate to know who is going to come in last and who is going to come in first and second,' Stearns said. 'In D5 it's likely that Robert Haaland and Ross Mirkarimi will come in at one or two.'

Assuming Haaland and Mirkarimi would come in at the top, it's in their best interest to campaign for the votes of the candidates expected to lose, he said."