Source: http://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/21-A/title21-Asec723-A.html
Timestamp: 2019-05-19 17:23:20
Document Index: 120452605

Matched Legal Cases: ['§5', '§5', '§5', '§5', '§8', '§5', '§5', '§9', '§10', '§5', '§8']

F. "Last-place candidate" means the candidate with the fewest votes in a round of the ranked-choice voting tabulation. [IB 2015, c. 3, §5 (NEW).]
(2) The candidate has a lower vote total than a candidate described in subparagraph (1). [IB 2015, c. 3, §5 (NEW).]
J. "Round" means an instance of the sequence of voting tabulation steps established in subsection 2. [IB 2015, c. 3, §5 (NEW).]
[ IB 2015, c. 3, §5 (NEW) .]
2. Procedures. Except as provided in subsections 3 and 4, the following procedures are used to determine the winner of an election determined by ranked-choice voting. Tabulation must proceed in rounds. In each round, the number of votes for each continuing candidate must be counted. Each continuing ballot counts as one vote for its highest-ranked continuing candidate for that round. Exhausted ballots are not counted for any continuing candidate. The round then ends with one of the following 2 potential outcomes.
[ 2017, c. 316, §8 (AMD) .]
A. The number of allowable rankings may be limited to no fewer than 6. [IB 2015, c. 3, §5 (NEW).]
B. Two or more candidates may be defeated simultaneously by batch elimination in any round of tabulation. [IB 2015, c. 3, §5 (NEW).]
[ 2017, c. 316, §9 (AMD) .]
[ 2017, c. 316, §10 (NEW) .]
IB 2015, c. 3, §5 (NEW). 2017, c. 316, §§8-10 (AMD).