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<br /> <br /> <br />Ordinance <br /> <br />An Ordinance Establishing <br />Instant Runoff Voting for Special Elections <br /> <br />1 CITY OF ROSEVILLE ORDAINS: <br /> <br />2 1: <br /> <br />3 The City of Roseville shall conduct Special Elections using Runoff Voting as <br />4 a means for electing a mayor or member of the Roseville City Council, if there are <br />5 three or more candidates for the vacant office. <br /> <br />6 The City finds that it is in public interest to have an efficient and economical <br />7 process for special elections that allows a majority winner to be determined without <br />8 a primary election. <br /> <br />9 SECTION 2: <br /> <br />10 The election shall be conducted in the following manner: <br /> <br />11 (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) a candidate shall be deemed "continuingll <br />12 if the candidate has not been eliminated, (2) a ballot shall be deemed "continuing" if <br />13 it is not exhausted, (3) a ballot shall be deemed II and not counted in <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />no more choices indicated on the ballot. If a ballot gives to <br />16 more candidates, the ballot shall be declared exhausted when such multiple <br />17 rankings are reached. If a voter casts a ballot but skips a rank, the voter's vote <br />18 be transferred to that voter's next ranked choice. <br /> <br />19 (b) If a candidate receives a majority of the first choices, that candidate shall <br />20 declared elected. If no candidate receives a majority, the candidate who received <br />21 the fewest first choices shall be eliminated and each vote cast for that candidate <br />22 shall be transferred to the next ranked candidate on that voter's ballot. If, after this <br />23 transfer of votes, any candidate has a majority of the votes from the continuing <br />24 ballots, that candidate shall be declared elected. <br /> <br />25 (c) If no candidate receives a majority of votes from the continuing ballots after a <br />26 candidate has been eliminated and his or her votes have been transferred to the <br />27 next ranked candidate, the continuing candidate with the fewest votes from the <br />28 continuing ballots shall be eliminated. Each vote cast for that candidate shall be <br />29 transferred to the next ranked continuing candidate on that voter's ballot. This <br /> <br />City of Roseville - Proposed Ordinance <br />Page 1 of2 <br /> <br />