An act relating to town, city, and village elections for single-seat offices using ranked-choice voting

This bill allows Vermont towns, cities, and villages to voluntarily adopt ranked-choice voting for elections of single-seat offices. Under the system, voters rank candidates in order of preference rather than selecting just one, and ballots allow voters to rank multiple candidates equally. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the election counts how voters ranked each candidate above others in head-to-head comparisons to determine a winner, ultimately selecting the candidate with the most first-choice votes if no Condorcet winner exists. The bill requires local governments to already use the Australian ballot system before adopting ranked-choice voting and mandates that election results include detailed tabulation data showing first-choice counts and paired comparison outcomes.