Regulation 120.05: Standing Committee Chair Selection

01. Selection Process

1. Balloting shall be conducted by preferential balloting, in which each voter shall rank their choices for each position using natural numbers with one (1) representing the first choice, and increasing numbers representing less desirable choices.

2. A candidate shall require a majority of voters to indicate them as the first choice in order to be elected.

3. Voters shall be entitled to mark as few as zero candidates for any given position or as many as all of them.

4. A section of a voter’s ballot shall be considered spoiled where:

1. That voter has indicated the same number for more than one (1) candidate; or

2. That voter has not included the number one (1) next to any candidate; or

3. That voter has indicated more than one (1) number next to the same candidate; or

4. That voter has used non-consecutive numbers.

5. In the event that no candidate receives a majority of first place votes in a given race, the candidate with the fewest first place votes shall be eliminated.

6. Any voter who has indicated an eliminated candidate with a number shall have the candidate marked with the next highest number following the number by which the eliminated candidate has been indicated take the place of the eliminated candidate, and so on, in such a way that all candidates indicated by that voter as less desirable than the eliminated candidate are registered as being one (1) step more desirable that than originally indicated.

7. Where all remaining candidates have an equal number of first place votes, or where the remaining candidate with the fewest first place votes is tied with another remaining candidate, the candidate that had the fewest first place votes on the first count in which a differential existed shall be eliminated.

8. Where all remaining candidates have an equal number of first places votes, or where the remaining candidate with the fewest first place votes is tied with another remaining candidate, and where this tie has existed on every count, the candidate with the fewest first place votes shall be eliminated by a random or quasi-random method selected by the Speaker of Students’ Council.

9. The process set out in this section shall continue for each position until such a time as a candidate receives a majority of first place votes for that position at which point that candidate shall be declared victorious.

10. Where “None of the Above” is declared victorious, no candidates shall be declared victorious.