St. Paul residents went to the polls Tuesday to choose between re-electing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter to a third term in office or elevating one of four challengers to the role.

Among those challengers, the ranked-choice election included state Rep. Kaohly Her, who entered the mayor’s race in August with a strong following but a short lead time to make her case for overhauling leadership at City Hall.

Results are expected Tuesday night, thanks to new open-source software acquired by St. Paul for the purpose of digitally reallocating ballots in instant run-off elections.

Ramsey County Elections planned to publish unofficial vote totals and other electronic data as quickly as possible instead of waiting two days before a hand count, which had been the tradition in city council races whe

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