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The Legislative Branch of SGA is considering a new voting system and would like student input!

SGA Senator Evan Leiter-Mason is working on an initiative to reform the voting system here at UMBC. The goal of this initiative is to foster a more democratic, civil voting environment for all students.

In order to ensure that Executive officers (President/Executive Vice President, Vice President of Student Organizations, Treasurer) are only elected by a majority of student votes, Evan is proposing that SGA use an instant runoff voting system.

Instant-runoff voting is an electoral system used to elect a single winner from a field of more than two candidates. It is a preferential voting system in which voters rank the candidates in order of preference rather than voting for a single candidate. This system will conveniently require only a single round of voting.

Ballots are initially distributed based on each voter’s first preference. If a candidate secures a majority of votes cast, that candidate wins. Otherwise, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Ballots assigned to the eliminated candidate are recounted and added to the totals of the remaining candidates based on who is ranked next on each ballot. This process continues until one candidate wins by obtaining a majority of the votes. (from Wikipedia)

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