2. Elections.

A. The executive director of the board, upon signed request of the university, academy or technical community college alleging that one or more university, academy or technical community college employees or employee organizations have presented to it a claim to be recognized as the representative of a bargaining unit of university, academy or technical community college employees, or upon signed petition of at least 30% of a bargaining unit of university, academy or technical community college employees that they desire to be represented by an organization, shall conduct a secret ballot election to determine whether the organization represents a majority of the members of the bargaining unit. Such an election may be conducted at suitable work locations or through the United States mail, and the procedures adopted and employed must ensure that neither the employee organizations or the management representatives involved in the election have access to information that would identify a voter.

B. The ballot shall must contain the name of such organization and that of any other organization showing written proof of at least 10% representation of the university, academy or technical community college employees within the unit, together with a choice for any university, academy or technical community college employee to designate that the employee does not desire to be represented by any bargaining agent. Where more than one organization is on the ballot, and no one of the 3 or more choices receives a majority vote of the university, academy or technical community college employees voting, a run-off election shall must be held. The run-off ballot shall must contain the 2 choices which that received the largest and 2nd largest