Here are the three city charter amendment referendums on the Nov. 6 ballot in Memphis in the order that they appear on the ballot.

TERM LIMITS

What’s On The Ballot: Shall the Charter of the City of Memphis, Tennessee be amended to provide no person shall be eligible to hold or to be elected to the office of Mayor or Memphis City Council if any such person has served at any time more than three (3) consecutive four-year terms, except that service by persons elected or appointed to fill an unexpired four-year term shall not be counted as full four-year term?

What It Means: You are being asked to approve a limit of three consecutive terms in office for those elected to the Memphis City Council and those elected mayor. At least that was the council’s stated intent. If this passes, lawsuits probably will be filed over the difference between what was meant and what the wording actually does. The change would apply to the current mayor and council members. Currently, the term limit for those city offices is two consecutive four-year terms.

If You Vote Yes or For the Amendment: You are in favor of extending the term limits to three consecutive terms.

If You Vote No or Against the Amendment: You are against extending the term limits to three consecutive terms.

INSTANT-RUNOFF VOTING

What’s On The Ballot: Shall the Charter of the City of Memphis, Tennessee be amended to repeal Instant Runoff Voting and to restore the election procedure existing prior to the 2008 Amendment for all City offices, and expressly retaining the 1991 federal ruling for persons elected to the Memphis City Council single districts?

What It Means: This would repeal a method of electing City Council members in seven single-member districts when no candidate gets a majority of the votes. Instead of a runoff election between the top two finishers at a later date, voters have the option of ranking candidates in order of preference – first, second and third. If no one gets a majority, the candidate who received the fewest number of first-choice votes is eliminated and the voter's second-choice candidate receives the vote instead. This continues until one candidate has received a simple majority.

If You Vote Yes or For the Amendment: You are in favor of eliminating instant-runoff voting.

If You Vote No or Against the Amendment: You want to keep instant-runoff voting.

RUNOFFS

What’s On The Ballot: Shall the Charter of the City of Memphis, Tennessee be amended to provide that in any municipal election held as required by law, the candidate receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared the winner, thereby eliminating run-off elections?

What It Means: This would eliminate the requirement that requires a runoff election if no candidate in any of the seven single-member council district races gets a majority of the votes cast. That would mean whoever gets the most votes in these races wins the seat, even if it is not a majority of the votes cast.

If You Vote Yes or For the Amendment: You want to eliminate runoffs.

If You Vote No or Against the Amendment: You want to keep runoffs for these seven city council seats.

Early voting continues through Nov. 1 with no early voting on Sundays. A list of early-voting locations and their hours can be found at www.shelbyvote.com, the website of the Shelby County Election Commission. You can vote at any of the sites regardless of where you live.

Election Day is Nov. 6. If you vote early, you cannot vote again on Election Day. On Election Day, you must vote at your precinct polling place.

After the polls close on Election Day, follow @bdriesdm for live coverage of the returns until the last vote is counted.