584 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

office in said county or legislative 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 candidate 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 dis-
trict in the State Convention after the name of the first choice candi-
date shall have been dropped from the consideration of said convention
as hereinafter provided.

2nd. In case no candidate receives a majority of all the "first choice"
votes cast and counted in any county or legislative district, 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 candidates 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 remain-
ing 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 district 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 his said voters
have indicated their "second choice" or preference. And if this does
not give a majority of all the votes cast and counted to any candidate,
then the lowest first choice candidate shall be dropped from the canvass
and his "second choices" distributed among the remaining candidates
and thus added to their "first choice" votes.

And if necessary, continuing the above process by dropping the low-
est candidates and distributing his votes as marked for "second choice"
among the remaining candidates until one has a majority of the votes
cast and counted or is the only one remaining. And such one so having
a majority or being the only one remaining shall be the "second choice"
candidate of said county or legislative district and shall be entitled to
receive the votes of said county or legislative district in the State Con-
vention after the name of the first choice candidate of said county or
legislative district shall have been dropped from the consideration of
said convention as hereinafter provided.