Jasiel Correia was ousted for fraud allegations, but apparently he was a better candidate than his four opponents
In a special election Tuesday, residents of Fall River, Massachusetts, voted their mayor out of office. But they also voted him back in, by a small plurality — on the same ballot.
On Tuesday, 7,829 residents voted to recall Correia, and 4,911 voted to keep him in office, according to the city’s Election Commission. But on the same ballot, voters were asked to choose among five people for the mayor’s job. Correia’s name was included. There, he won a plurality, with about 35 percent of voters voting for Correia.
On Wednesday, Coogan, 66, said it was odd that a candidate could lose his seat by a majority vote and still win a re-election just because ballots were split among five candidates. His organization advocates ranked choice voting, a system in which voters rank candidates in the order of preference, and last-place candidates are eliminated one by one until a candidate achieves a majority.
In the federal indictment, filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, Correia was accused of defrauding SnoOwl investors by “making false representations and diverting a significant portion of the investors’ fund to himself.” He pleaded not guilty and has said that the indictment was politically motivated.
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