CC 5-25-21 Item No. 1 Written Communications_Mayor Paul's Proposed Voting ProceduresCupertino City Council May 25, 2021
Proposed Voting Procedures
Appointments
1) In any voting round, each applicant may receive from each Councilmember up to one vote only.
2) The City Clerk’s office tallies the votes from each round.
3) Vote for up to the number of available spots.
4) If any applicant has a Council majority of votes, that applicant is appointed.
5) If fewer than the number of available spots obtains a majority of Council votes, another round
of voting is taken. Council may deliberate prior to the subsequent round of voting.
6) The candidates for a subsequent round of voting is comprised of the pool of applicants in the
prior round who did not obtain a majority for selection.
7) Steps 3) through 6) are repeated up to two times until the number of available spots are
occupied by applicants that have obtained a majority of votes from Council.
8) If at least one spot remains following three rounds of step 3) through 6), then a run‐off is
conducted among those candidates that received at least one vote in any prior round of voting,
but did not receive a majority. The voting procedures of steps 3) and 4) are followed.
9) If, following step 8), there still remains at least one available spot, then final run‐off voting
rounds will be conducted.
a) The number of final run‐off voting rounds will be equivalent to the number of remaining
spots.
b) For any vote in a final run‐off voting round, each Councilmember is required to vote for one
of the remaining applicants.
c) The candidate pool for the first final run‐off voting round will be those candidates receiving
at least one vote in any prior voting round but who did not receive an appointment.
d) If no majority from the first vote of a final run‐off voting round supports a single remaining
applicant, then Council will conduct the first sub‐round of voting of the final run‐off voting
round, with the applicants in the sub‐round taken from any remaining applicant receiving at
least one vote in the prior voting round, and with each Councilmember required to cast a
vote.
e) If still no majority exists for a single applicant, then Council will continue the sub‐rounds
until a single applicant obtains a majority of Council votes.
f) If after three sub‐rounds of voting still no majority exists to identify the appointee for the
current final run‐off voting round, then Council will direct the City Clerk to utilize a method
of random selection for one of the remaining applicants to select an appointee for that spot.
g) If any available spot remains, Council will follow voting steps 9)b) and 9)d – 9)f) until all
available spots are filled. The applicant pool for voting for any final run‐off voting round
following the initial final run‐off voting round will be comprised of all candidates from the
prior final run‐off voting round, less the applicant that was selected in that prior final run‐off
voting round.
Alternates
1) The same voting procedures to determine Appointments will be used to determine Alternates.
2) The pool of candidates for Alternates will be the pool of candidates for the beginning round of
voting for Appointments, less those applicants selected as Appointments.