"BE IT RESOLVED, that the Duluth City Council recommends and requests the state of Minnesota to add ranked and cumulative processing capability as a certification requirement for new voting equipment."
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"Be it resolved that the Hopkins City Council recommends that the Minnesota HAVA state plan committee require any new voting equipment, purchased with Federal funds, have the ability to handle ranked ballot voting....be it also resolved that should the City of Hopkins expend funds on voting equipment in the future, at the time of the expenditure is shall be determined if it is feasible to upgrade the voting equipment to allow for ranked ballot voting."
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This primer on Instant Runoff Voting was originally presented to the Minneapolis City Council on April 22, 2005. Click here to download.
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"That the Minneapolis City Council urges the State of Minnesota to add ranked and cumulative ballot processing capability as a certification requirement for new voting equipment."
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"Resolved, The Ramsey County Board of Commissioners, based on their review of this item, supports the concept that would allow local units of government to use Instant Runoff Voting as an alternative voting method in local elections."
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From the article:
"Some election reform advocates are starting locally by proposing that Minnesota cities act under their home rule powers and adopt Single Transferable Vote (STV) as their voting method. But some have asserted that cities are not free to conduct such an experiment, arguing either that the Legislature must specifically authorize such a system, or that a 1915 Minnesota Supreme Court case has held the method unconstitutional.
"This article reports on the reform efforts and alleged legal hurdles to Single Transferable Vote and concludes that the opposing arguments are insubstantial and are not obstacles to reform."
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