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Under the proposed law, manufacturers would not be allowed to require authorization before owners or repair <br /> facilities could access mechanical data stored in a motor vehicle's on-board diagnostic system,except through <br /> an authorization process standardized across all makes and models and administered by an enrity unaffiliated <br /> with the manufacturer. <br /> The proposed law would require the Attorney General to prepare a notice for prospective motor vehicle owners <br /> and lessees explaining telematics systems and the proposed law's requirements concerning access to the <br /> vehicle's mechanical data. Under the proposed law, dealers would have to provide prospective owners with, and <br /> prospective owners would have to acknowledge receipt of,the notice before buying or leasing a vehicle.Failure <br /> to comply with these no6ce requirements would subject motor vehicle dealers to sanctions by the applicable <br /> licensing authoriTy. <br /> Motor vehicle owners and independent repair facilities could enforce this law through state consumer protection <br /> laws and recover civil penalties of the greater of treble damages or$10,000 per violation. <br /> A YES VOTE would provide motor vehicle owners and independent repair facili6es with expanded access to <br /> wirelessly transmitted mechanical data related to their vehicles' maintenance and repair. <br /> A NO VOTE would make no change in the law governing access to vehicles' wirelessly transmitted <br /> mechanical data. <br /> QUE5TION 2: LAW PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION <br /> Do you approve of a law summarized below, on which no vote was taken by the Senate or the House of <br /> Representatives on or before May 5, 2020? <br /> SUMMARY <br /> This proposed law would implement a voting system known as "ranked-choice voting,"in which voters rank <br /> one or more candidates by order of preference. Ranked-choice voting would be used in primary and general <br /> elections for all Massachusetts statewide offices, state legislative offices,federal congressional offices, and <br /> certain other offices beginning in 2022. Ranked-choice voting would not be used in elections for president, <br /> county commissioner,or regional district school committee member. <br /> Under the proposed law, votes would be counted in a series of rounds. In the first round, if one candidate <br /> received mare than 50 percent of the first-place votes,that candidate would be declared the winner and no other <br /> rounds would be necessary. If no candidate received more than 50 percent of the first-place votes,then the <br /> candidate or candidates who received the fewest first-place votes would be eliminated and,in the next round, <br /> each vote for an eliminated candidate would instead be counted toward the next bighest-ranked candidate on <br /> that voter's ballot. Depending on the number of candidates, additional rounds of counting could occur,with the <br /> last-piace candidate or candidates in each round being eliminated and the votes for an eliminated candidate <br /> going to the voter's next choice out of the remaining candidates.A tie for last place in any round would be <br /> broken by comparing the tied candidates' support in earlier rounds. Ultimately, the candidate who was, out of <br /> the remaining candidates,the preference of a majority of voters would be declared the winner. <br /> Ranked-choice voting would be used only in races where a single candidate is to be declared the winner and not <br /> in races where mare than one person is to be elected. <br /> Under the proposed law, if no candidate received more than 50 percent of fust-place votes in the first round,the <br /> rounds of ballot-counting necessary for ranked-choice voting would be conducted at a central tabulation facility. <br /> At the facility, voters' rankings would be entered into a computer,which would then be used to calculate the <br /> 2 <br />