[EM] Proposed Approval-Voting city stature wording

[Michael Ossipoff]

Proposed wording for city Approval-Voting statute:

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Approval-Voting Statute:

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Voting:

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In every election for electing a single-winner to a single-seat office in
this city:

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Each voter shall be allowed to Approve(i.e. vote for, mark) as many
candidates as s/he wishes to on the ballot. Each candidate’s votes shall be
summed over all the ballots, & the candidate receiving the most votes shall
be declared winner & is elected to that office.
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Implementation:

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Count-software:

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The count-software code for detecting & disallowing “over-votes” (votes for
more than one candidate on a ballot) shall be deleted.

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The ballot’s voting-instruction:

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The ballot’s voting-instruction shall be changed from “Vote for 1
candidate” to “Vote for 1 or more candidates”.
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Election-results reporting:

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The following election results shall be reported by the elections
department, & made available to local media, & displayed on the official
county website, & made available on paper at the elections-department
office:

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1. The winner

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2. The vote-total of every candidate

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3: The following information:

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Where N = either 4 or 5 or 6:

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For the N top vote-receiving candidates:

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The percentage of the ballots that exemplify each one of the 2^N possible
ways of approving & not approving those N candidates.
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