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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5820
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 1802
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY RANKED -
CHOICE VOTING.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That a task force be established to study the implementation at 1
elections of a method of casting and tabulating votes in which (1) 2
voters rank candidates in order of preference, (2) tabulation proceeds 3
in sequential rounds in which last-place candidates are defeated and 4
until one candidate receives over fifty per cent of the votes cast, and (3) 5
the candidate receiving over fifty per cent of the votes cast is deemed 6
to have been elected to such office. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To establish a task force to study ranked-choice voting.