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recognition. If 90 employees vote, an employee organ- ization must receive at least 46 votes for formal recognition. ) (iii) in an election involving three or more choices, where none of the choices receives a majority of the valid votes cast, a run-off election shall be conducted between the two choices receiving the larges t numb er of valid votes cas t. The rules governing an initial election shall also apply to a run-off election. (5) There shall be no more than one valid election in a 12 month period within the same unit. (B) DECERTIFICATION OF ESTABLISHED UNIT (1) A Petition for Decertification alleging that an employee organization granted formal recognition is no longer the maj ori ty representative of the employees in an appropriate unit may be filed with the Municipal Employee Relations Officer only during the months of October or November* of each year following the first full year of formal recognition between December l, 1970, and September 30, 1971, a Petition for Decertification could not be filed until October, 1972. The Petition for Decertification may be filed by an employee, a group of employees or their representative, or an employee organization. The Petition, including all accompanying documents, shall be verified, under oath, by the person signing it, that its contents are true. It may be accompanied by a Petition for Recognition by a challenging organization. The Petition for Decertification shall contain the following information: -22-