Nevada Single Transferable Vote and Multimember Senate Districts Initiative (2020)
| Nevada Single Transferable Vote and Multimember Senate Districts Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic State legislatures measures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Nevada Single Transferable Vote and Multimember Senate Districts Initiative was not on the ballot in Nevada as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The ballot measure would have changed the Nevada State Senate from 21 single-member districts to multi-member districts, each with five senators, equal to the state's number of congressional districts. As of 2019, Nevada had four congressional districts, meaning the ballot initiative would create four multi-member Senate districts, totaling 20 members.[1]
The ballot measure would have enacted a single-transferable vote for Senate elections, defined as "a vote that is capable of being given so as to rank the voter's order of preference of the candidates for election as members for the district; and is capable of being transferred to the next choice when the vote is not needed to give the prior choice the necessary quota of votes, or when a prior choice is eliminated from the list of candidates because of a deficiency in the number of votes given for him."[1]
The ballot measure would have required that the state Assembly to have at least one more member than twice the members of the state Senate.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Nevada
In Nevada, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the total votes cast in the most recent general election. Moreover, signature gathering must be distributed equally among each of the state's four congressional districts. The initial filing of an initiated constitutional amendment cannot be made before September 1 of the year preceding the election year. The signature petitions must be filed with county officials by the third Tuesday in June of an even-numbered year. The final submission of signatures to the secretary of state must be made at least 90 days before the next regular general election. Initiated constitutional amendments that qualify for the ballot must be approved at two consecutive general elections.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2020 ballot and the next even-yeared election ballot:
- Signatures: 97,616 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was June 24, 2020.
Signatures are verified by county clerks using a random sampling method if more than 500 signatures were submitted in that county. If enough signatures are submitted and verified, the initiative goes on the next general election ballot. If approved at the first election, it goes on the next general election ballot.
Stages of this initiative
- The ballot initiative was filed on September 16, 2019.[1]
- The initiative did not submit signatures by the signature deadline. Benjamin Pennington, founder of the political action committee, Fountainhead Society, which sponsored the initiative, said he would submit an "improved initiative" for the 2022 cycle.[2]
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