SB 560 Summary

• Establishes ranked-choice voting for special federal elections not held on regularly scheduled primary or general election dates and for special elections filling vacant county council seats.

• Implements a multi-round tabulation process where voters rank candidates in order of preference, the last-place candidate is defeated each round, and tabulation continues until only two or fewer candidates remain, with the candidate receiving the most votes declared the winner.

• Defines inactive ballots as those that do not rank any continuing candidate, contain an overvote at the highest continuing ranking, or contain two or more sequential skipped rankings before the highest continuing ranking.

• Allows the office of elections to limit allowable rankings to no fewer than six and permits batch elimination of multiple mathematically-eliminated candidates in any tabulation round.

• Takes effect on July 1, 2112.