The Awards Committee shall recommend State Achievement Award Requirements and Point Evaluation to the Council of Governors for approval.

          The State Secretary/Treasurer shall publish State Achievement Award Requirements and Point Evaluation information on an appropriate form and forward copies not later than August 1 yearly to each District Governor for distribution to the Lions Clubs in the State Organization.

APPENDIX A

Preferential voting.  The term preferential voting refers to any of a number of voting methods by  which, on a single ballot when there are more than two possible choices, the second or less-preferred choices of voters can be taken into account if no candidate or proposition attains a majority.  While it is more complicated than other methods of voting in common use and is not a substitute for the normal procedure of repeated balloting until a majority is obtained, preferential voting is especially useful and fair in an election by mail if it is impractical to take more than one ballot.  In such cases, it makes possible a more representative result than under a rule that a plurality shall elect.  It can be used only if expressly authorized in the bylaws.

             Preferential voting has many variations.  One method is described here by way of illustration.  On the preferential ballot - for each office to be filled or multiple-choice question to be decided - the voter is asked to indicate the order in which he prefers all the candidates or propositions, placing the numeral 1 beside his first preference, the numeral 2 beside his second preference, and so on for every possible choice.  In counting the

than half of the ballots show one candidate or proposition indicated as first choice, that choice has a majority in the ordinary sense, and the candidate is elected or the proposition is decided upon.  But if there is no such majority, candidates or propositions are eliminated one by one, beginning with the least popular, until one prevails, as follows:  The ballots in the thinnest pile—that is, those containing the name designated as first choice by the fewest number of voters—are redistributed into the other piles according to the names marked as second choice on these ballots.  The number of ballots in each remaining pile after this distribution is again  re-