[5] Once the report was released, council formally requested enabling legislation from the Ontario Legislature in June 2013,[6] with twenty-six councillors supporting the motion and fifteen against.

In response to the request and a RaBIT petition signed by over eight thousand people,[7] the Liberal MPP for Scarborough-Guildwood, Mitzie Hunter, introduced the Toronto Ranked Ballots Election Act in March 2014.

[9] During the 2014 provincial election campaign, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that, if re-elected, the Liberal government would introduce legislation that would enable all Ontario municipalities to use ranked ballots if they so chose.

"[11] In spring 2015, Minister McMeekin announced a consultation process aimed at gathering input from the public on how the government should implement its promise to provide municipalities with the ability to use ranked ballots.

[12] At the same time, the province launched a technical working group to discuss the issues surrounding implementation of ranked ballots at the municipal level with public servants and other stakeholders with the aim of informing the legislative drafting process.

Andrew Coyne welcomed the change in his National Post column, saying that ranked ballots would encourage "more civil, less divisive campaigns.

In this meeting, Councillor Paul Ainslie moved a motion to direct staff to look into the possibility of creating an independent citizen's reference panel to consider whether the city should switch to ranked ballots for its elections.

[24] Some councillors argued against the motion claiming that ranked ballots were hard to understand and that the current first-past-the-post system worked fine.

This development required RaBIT to turn attention back to the Provincial level to advocate for restoring the right of municipalities to use ranked ballots.