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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5884
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 1849
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.
REP. HUGHES, 135th Dist.
REP. SIMMONS, 144th Dist.
REP. TURCO, 27th Dist.
REP. GODFREY, 110th Dist.
REP. WOOD, 29th Dist.
REP. GRESKO, 121st Dist.
REP. WINKLER, 56th Dist.
REP. LEMAR, 96th Dist.
SEN. LOPES, 6th 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) voters 2
rank candidates in order of preference, (2) tabulation proceeds in 3
sequential rounds in which last-place candidates are defeated and until 4
one candidate receives over fifty per cent of the votes cast, and (3) the 5
candidate receiving over fifty per cent of the votes cast is deemed to 6
have been elected to such office. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To establish a task force to study ranked-choice voting.