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This bill establishes detailed rules for presidential preference primary elections, including the implementation of ranked choice voting, where voters rank candidates in order of preference, and mandates that the Secretary of State will oversee the tabulation and reporting of results. Specifically, it outlines how political parties can choose between winner-take-all or proportional delegate allocation methods, sets a threshold for receiving delegates in proportional systems, and defines terms like "active candidate" and "ranking order" to clarify the ranked choice voting process. The bill also details procedures for reporting preliminary and final election results, including round-by-round data and ballot-level ranking information in a machine-readable format, and ensures that post-election risk-limiting audits, which are statistical methods to verify election outcomes, will be conducted for presidential preference primaries. Furthermore, it clarifies that the provisions of this chapter will not prevent the use of fusion voting, an electoral system allowing multiple parties to endorse a single candidate, and that the act takes effect immediately upon passage.

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