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Legislative counsel outlines ranked‑choice voting mechanics for presidential primary bill
Summary
Legislative counsel Tim Devlin explained a draft elections bill that would implement ranked‑choice voting (an instant‑runoff form) for major‑party presidential primaries and reviewed definitions, tabulation rules and party options for awarding delegates.
Legislative counsel Tim Devlin gave the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee an overview of draft language that would implement ranked‑choice voting for major‑party presidential primaries, explaining the mechanics, key statutory definitions and implementation steps.
Devlin said the draft adopts an instant‑runoff form of ranked‑choice voting: voters rank candidates in order of preference on a single ballot; tabulation proceeds in rounds, eliminating the candidate with the fewest votes each round and reallocating those ballots to each voter’s next highest ranked active candidate until the stopping condition is reached (majority or party‑defined thresholds for delegate allocation). He noted the approach has been used in…
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