IRV
From:
Anissa Hollingshead
Date:
May 09 13:33 UTC
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On April 18th the Council did enact an ordinance AND issue the RFP. From
the Official Proceedings:
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The ELECTIONS Committee submitted the following reports:
ELECTIONS - Your Committee, to whom was referred an ordinance amending Title
8.5 of the Minneapolis Code of Ordinances relating to Elections, by adding a
new Chapter 167 relating to Municipal Elections: Rules of Conduct,
establishing rules for counting ranked choice voting elections, now
recommends that said ordinance be given its second reading for amendment and
passage.
Adopted 4/18/2008. Yeas, 9; Nays, 4 as follows:
Yeas - Remington, Benson, Hodges, Samuels, Gordon, Ostrow, Schiff,
Lilligren, Glidden.
Nays - Goodman, Hofstede, Colvin Roy, Johnson.
*The full ordinance follows, and is several pages*. *The* *proceedings
are available on the* *city's website, and the* *link to that meeting
follows:*
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/archives/proceedings/2008/20080418-proceedings.pdf
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Anissa Hollingshead
Hawthorne
On 5/8/08, John Ferman <<email obscured>> wrote:
>
> Rules and procedures that are not in Ordinances are not law and are
> not binding. In order for the RFP to be definitive and binding, that
> document must be specifically cited in Ordinances. There is no such
> citation; therefore, the ElectionsEquipRFP.pdf is not law and is not
> binding. Hence, the election judges may determine how to count and
> assess the Intent of the Voter as State law requires. Here is a
> question for those with expert knowledge of election law. Suppose the
> first choice on 5,000 ballots is to a person who is eliminated on the
> first round. Suppose 1/2 of those ballots 'bullet' vote for the
> dropped candidate, 1/3 of theose ballots leave all choices from #2 and
> higher blank. Suppose the remaining 1/6 of those ballots have a 2nd
> choice for either of the 2 leading candidates. Since 5/6 of 5,000
> ballots are now invalid, they must be discarded. Suppose the election
> was for 5 offices and 7 referendem items - the discarded ballots can
> be counted in those 5 races and 7 issues. The Rules and Procedures
> Ordinances had better be extremely explicit and cover every imaginable
> and unimaginable contingency; else you have heard that old refrain -
> see ya in court.
>
>
> On May 8, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Jeanne Massey wrote:
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> > Jack Ferman:
> > Last week in an email from CC Glidden readers were directed to the
> > Mpls Ordinances section of the Mpls web pages to read about the next
> > election voting procedures. Chapter 2 of Ordinances contains two short
> > paragraphs: Sec 5A Conduct of Elections and Sec 5B Voting Method.
> > Neither section details the ballot counting precedures
> >
> > Me:
> > The detailed rules and procedures for conducting Minneapolis' IRV
> > elections
> > were adopted by the Minneapolis City Council on April 18th. They are
> > included in the city's RFP for voting equipment.
> >
> > See full RFP and Rules at:
> > http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/procurement/ElectionsEquipRFP.pdf
> >
> > Jeanne Massey
> > Kingfield
> > FairVote Minnesota
> >
> >
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> Jack Ferman
> Kingfield Neighborhood
> <email obscured>
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> John Ferman
> Kingfield, Minneapolis
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Anissa Hollingshead