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

This bill would allow Vermont towns, cities, and villages to voluntarily adopt ranked-choice voting for local elections of single-seat offices (like mayor or council member). If adopted, voters would rank candidates in order of preference on ballots. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the system would determine a winner through pairwise comparisons between candidates, selecting the candidate who would beat all others in head-to-head matchups. Local governments must first implement the Australian ballot system to use this method, and election results would publicly display both first-choice tallies and comparison outcomes.