An Act to Institute Instant Runoff Voting

Sponsor: Nick Troiano
Status: Under consideration

AN ACT TO Institute Instant Runoff Voting

Be it hereby enacted by the Georgetown University Senate as follows:

1. The current language in the bylaws under 16.09 (“Elections…Senate.”) be struck and replaced with:

“Elections for President and Vice-President shall be conducted by instant runoff voting.”

2. The Election Commission should include the following instructions, substituting “x” for the total number of candidates:

“Please rank the candidates in the order of your most-preferred (1) to least-preferred (x). After the first round of voting, if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and his or her votes redistributed to the second-choice candidate, and so on, until one candidate receives a majority. You do not have to rank all the candidates, but understand that if your candidates are all eliminated, your vote will not count to the final determination.”