Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 524
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Taddeo) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 111 - 121
    4  and insert:
    5         101.019 Ranked-choice voting prohibited; exception.—A
    6  ranked-choice voting method that allows voters to rank
    7  candidates for an office in order of preference and have ballots
    8  cast be tabulated in multiple rounds following the elimination
    9  of a candidate until a single candidate attains a majority may
   10  not be used in determining the election or the nomination of any
   11  candidate to any local, state, or federal elective office in
   12  this state. However, a county, a municipality, or another unit
   13  of local government may implement ranked-choice voting for any
   14  local elective offices within their jurisdiction if approved by
   15  the adoption of an ordinance by the governing body of the unit
   16  of local government or approved by a majority of the electors in
   17  the applicable jurisdiction voting on such measure.
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   20  And the title is amended as follows:
   21         Delete lines 13 - 15
   22  and insert:
   23         nomination to elective office; providing an exception;
   24         amending s. 101.657, F.S.; authorizing