1.   A federal judge had recently prohibited runoffs in citywide elections after a lawsuit claiming that they were used to discriminate against black candidates.

2.   But rather than dropping, the number of petition challenges is actually up from the last citywide election.

3.   But with a citywide election coming on Tuesday, with a primary for mayor and elections for other offices, many candidates say the quandary has only intensified.

4.   He has won four citywide elections, though, and served in plain view of the public on the Board of Education and Board of Supervisors.

5.   It will take a majority vote in a citywide election for any of the secession efforts to succeed.

6.   Two years later, he was elected board president in a citywide election.

7.   Voters would still exert political control through citywide elections.