AUSTIN L. CROTHERS, GOVERNOR. 21

tributed among the candidates still remaining according to the
way the voters marking said dropped candidate for "First
Choice" have indicated their "Second Choice".

This process of dropping the lowest candidate and distrib-
uting his ballots as marked for second choice among the remain-
ing candidates shall be continued by the supervisors at the can-
vass until one of them shall be credited with a. majority of all
the votes cast counted for said office in said county or legisla-
tive district or until there is only one candidate remaining.

And said candidate thus receiving the majority vote of said
county or legislative district or being the last remaining candi-
date shall be considered the "second choice" of said county or
legislative district and shall be entitled to receive the votes of
said county or legislative district in the State Convention after
the name of the first choice candidate shall have been dropped
from the consideration of said convention as hereinafter pro-
vided.

2nd. In case no candidate receives a majority of all the "first
choice" votes cast and counted in any county or legislative dis-
trict, but only receives a plurality thereof, then the candidate
receiving the lowest "first choice" vote shall be dropped at the
canvass and the ballots' tallied for him for "first choice" shall be
distributed among the remaining candidates according to the
way his said voters voting for said lowest candidate for first
choice have indicated their "second choice".

And the process of dropping from the canvass the lowest
candidate as aforesaid and distributing the "second choice"
marked upon his first choice ballots among the remaining candi-
dates shall be continued by the Supervisors of Election at the
canvass until one of them shall be credited with a majority of
all the votes cast and counted for said office in said county
or legislative district or until there is only one candidate
remaining.

And such candidate so receiving a majority or being the
last remaining candidate shall be the "first choice" of said
county or legislative district, and shall be entitled to receive
the vote of the delegates from such county or legislative dis-
trict on the first and subsequent ballots in the State Convention
until his name is dropped before such convention as hereinafter
provided.

And the second choice of said county or legislative district
shall be determined by distributing the votes of the "first choice"
candidate among the remaining candidates according to the way
Ms said voters have indicated their "second choice" or prefer-