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7.60
(4) (c) 4. For each rejected vote, the board of canvassers' explanation for
10rejecting the vote.
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11Section 24
. 7.62 of the statutes is created to read:
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127.62 Canvass procedure for instant runoff voting. (1) Definitions. In
13this section:
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(a) “Active candidate” means any candidate that has not been defeated or
15elected.
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(b) “Exhausted ballot” means a ballot that does not contain a highest-ranked
17active candidate and is not an abstention or an overvote.
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(c) “Highest-ranked active candidate” means the active candidate assigned to
19a higher ranking than any other active candidates.
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(d) “Overvote” means an instance in which an elector has ranked more than one
21candidate at the same ranking.
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(e) “Ranking order” means the number available to be assigned by an elector
23to a candidate to express the elector's preference for that candidate. The number “1”
24is the highest ranking order, followed by “2,” and then “3,” and so on.
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1(f) “Round” means an instance of the sequence of voting tabulation beginning
2with sub. (3) (a).
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3(2) Tally sheets. The commission shall prescribe a tally sheet form for
4canvassing of the elections in which instant runoff voting under s. 5.20 is used. The
5inspectors shall use the form in preparing the returns and shall retain the form as
6a part of the official returns.
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7(3) Tabulation. In any election for exactly one office conducted by instant
8runoff voting under s. 5.20, tabulation proceeds in rounds. Each round proceeds
9sequentially as follows:
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(a) Each ballot shall count as one vote for the highest-ranked active candidate
11on that ballot. If 2 or fewer active candidates remain, the candidate with the fewest
12votes is defeated, the candidate with the greatest number of votes is elected, and
13tabulation is complete.
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(b) If more than 2 active candidates remain, and no active candidate has over
1550 percent of the votes cast, the active candidate with the fewest votes is defeated,
16and a new round begins under par. (a).
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17(4) Inactive ballots. In any round of tabulation in an election conducted by
18instant runoff voting under s. 5.20, a ballot that does not contain a highest-ranked
19active candidate shall not count for any candidate. Instead, the ballot shall be
20counted as an overvote or exhausted ballot.
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21(5) Batch elimination. In any election conducted by instant runoff voting
22under s. 5.20, the chief election officer may modify the tabulation to include batch
23elimination. If the tabulation includes batch elimination, then any time the active
24candidate with the fewest votes would be defeated under sub. (3) (b), each active
25candidate in the elimination batch shall be simultaneously defeated instead. An
1active candidate is in the elimination batch if the number of elected and active
2candidates with more votes than that candidate is greater than the number of offices
3to be elected and it is mathematically impossible for that candidate to be elected for
4any of the following reasons:
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(a) The candidate has fewer votes than any other active candidate.
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(b) The candidate's current vote total, plus all votes that could possibly be
7transferred to the candidate in future rounds, would not be enough to equal or
8surpass the active candidate with the next highest current vote total.
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(c) The candidate has a lower current vote total than an active candidate
10described under par. (b).
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11(6) Ties. If 2 or more candidates are tied with the fewest votes and tabulation
12cannot continue until the candidate with the fewest votes is defeated, then the
13candidate to be defeated shall be determined by lot. Election officials may resolve
14prospective ties between candidates prior to tabulation after all votes are cast.
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15(7) Administration. The commission shall promulgate rules for the
16administration of this section.
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17Section
25. 8.16 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 8.16 (1) (a) and amended to
18read:
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8.16
(1) (a) Except as provided in
par. (b) and sub. (2), the person who receives
20the greatest number of votes for an office on a party ballot at any partisan primary,
21regardless of whether the person's name appears on the ballot, shall be the party's
22candidate for the office, and the person's name shall so appear on the official ballot
23at the next election.
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24Section
26. 8.16 (1) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
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18.16
(1) (b) The 5 persons who receive the greatest number of votes for the
2offices of U.S. senator and U.S. representative in Congress at any partisan primary
3shall be the persons whose names appear on the official ballot at the next election.
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4Section
27. 8.50 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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8.50
(3) (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions for the
6partisan primary under s. 8.15 are applicable to all partisan primaries held under
7this section, and the provisions for spring primaries under s. 8.10 are applicable to
8all nonpartisan primaries held under this section. In a special partisan primary or
9election, the order of the parties on the ballot shall be the same as provided under
10s. 5.62 (1) or 5.64 (1) (b). No primary is required for a nonpartisan election in which
11not more than 2 candidates for an office appear on the ballot or for a partisan election
,
12other than for the offices of U.S. senator and U.S. representative in Congress, in
13which not more than one candidate for an office appears on the ballot of each
14recognized political party. In every special election except a special election for
15nonpartisan state office where no candidate is certified to appear on the ballot, a
16space for write-in votes shall be provided on the ballot, regardless of whether a
17special primary is held.
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18Section
28. 8.50 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
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8.50
(3) (c) Notwithstanding ss. 5.37 (4), 5.91 (6) and 6.80 (2) (f),
except with
20respect to the offices of U.S. senator and U.S. representative in Congress, whenever
21a special partisan primary is held concurrently with the presidential preference
22primary, an elector may choose the party column or ballot in which the elector will
23cast his or her vote separately for each of the 2 primaries. Whenever 2 or more special
24partisan primaries or one or more special partisan primaries and a partisan primary
1are held concurrently, the procedure prescribed in ss. 5.37 (4), 5.91 (6) and 6.80 (2)
2(f) applies.
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3Section 29
. 10.02 (3) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
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10.02
(3) (b) 2. At a partisan primary, the elector shall select the party ballot
5of his or her choice
, other than with respect to the offices of U.S. senator and U.S.
6representative in Congress, and shall make a cross (X) next to or depress the lever
7or button next to the candidate's name for each office for whom the elector intends
8to vote, or shall
, if applicable, insert or write in the name of the elector's choice for
9a candidate.
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10Section
30.
Initial applicability.
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(1) This act first applies to the 2022 partisan primary and general election.