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By Danny Wicentowski
on Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 6:10 AM
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DANNY WICENTOWSKI
St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones finished Tuesday's primary with 57% of approvals, a commanding win.
Tishaura Jones and Cara Spencer will face each other in the April 6 general election to be St. Louis's next mayor, but Tuesday's unprecedented primary was bigger than just the candidates' individual victories.
The election was also an experiment: As the
RFT detailed earlier this week, St. Louis's rollout of approval voting has been shadowed by measures of both anticipation and concern, and no one could predict how voters would behave when given the option to approve of "as many" candidates as they wished. One researcher described the March 2 primary as, simply, "a big unknown."