[EM] Proposed Approval-Voting city stature wording

[KenB]

How does your proposed wording compare to the ordinances that Fargo ND 
and St. Louis MO actually have?
   - Ken Bearman, Minneapolis MN


On 1/25/2024 3:46 PM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:

> 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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