[EM] Proposed Approval-Voting city stature wording

[Michael Ossipoff]

I looked at the St. Louis wording, & it was much briefer. I wanted to try
to spell things out.

I included results-reporting because I feel that’s important.

Saint Louis has a runoff. I propose it without one. A runoff loses FBC
compliance, & invites some offensive-strategies.

I didn’t say “no runoff”, but that’s implied when I said to elect the
candidate who got the most approvals.

I haven’t checked the Fargo wording yet. Has the ND legislature’s ban on
Approval been overturned?

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 16:48 KenB <kdbearman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > …
> >
> > Approval-Voting Statute:
> >
> > …
> >
> > Voting:
> >
> > …
> >
> > In every election for electing a single-winner to a single-seat office
> > in this city:
> >
> > …
> >
> > 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.
> > …
> > Implementation:
> >
> > …
> >
> > Count-software:
> >
> > …
> >
> > The count-software code for detecting & disallowing “over-votes”
> > (votes for more than one candidate on a ballot) shall be deleted.
> >
> > …
> >
> > The ballot’s voting-instruction:
> >
> > …
> >
> > The ballot’s voting-instruction shall be changed from “Vote for 1
> > candidate” to “Vote for 1 or more candidates”.
> > …
> > Election-results reporting:
> >
> > …
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > …
> >
> > 1. The winner
> >
> > …
> >
> > 2. The vote-total of every candidate
> >
> > …
> >
> > 3: The following information:
> >
> > …
> >
> > Where N = either 4 or 5 or 6:
> >
> > …
> >
> > For the N top vote-receiving candidates:
> >
> > …
> >
> > 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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