What about competing petitions? What if one group of citizens submits a petition to move from plurality to partisan elections and another group submits one to move from plurality to nonpartisan election and runoff?
The statutes don't deal with this situation, which is probably rare. The sensible course would seem to be for the council to act on the petition that is received first. If that petition leads to a successful amendment of the charter, the second petition has probably become moot. This solution is comparable to that developed by the courts when there are competing proposals for cities to annex the same territory.
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