  The November 2022 ranked choice election for District 4 School Director in
Oakland, CA, was very interesting from the perspective of social choice theory.
The election did not contain a Condorcet winner and exhibited downward and
upward monotonicity paradoxes, for example. Furthermore, an error in the
settings of the ranked choice tabulation software led to the wrong candidate
being declared the winner. This article explores the strange features of this
election and places it in the broader context of ranked choice elections in the
United States.
