HF367 Summary

• Authorizes cities, counties, towns, and school districts to adopt ranked-choice voting for local elections through ordinance, resolution, or voter approval, with adoption or repeal required at least 30 days before candidacy filing.

• Establishes ranked-choice voting procedures including ballot format requirements (allowing voters to rank at least three candidates), tabulation rules using threshold calculations and surplus transfers, and batch elimination of mathematically eliminated candidates.

• Creates a ranked-choice voting tabulation center where all ballots are counted centrally, with public observation and detailed reporting of results including round-by-round tabulation and exhausted ballots.

• Requires new voting equipment purchased in Minnesota to support ranked-choice voting capabilities, including capturing ballot data, providing minimum three rankings, and notifying voters of errors like overvotes and skipped rankings.

• Provides recount procedures for defeated candidates and requires postelection reviews of ranked-choice voting systems where tabulation software is used.