Bruce Poliquin and his supporters are inventing problems when they just have to count to two.
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State won’t probe claim that voters got 2nd District ballots by mistake
Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap says there is no evidence to support statements by 17 midcoast voters who say they received 2nd District ballots even though they live in Maine’s 1st District.
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Posted inElection 2018, Local & State, Politics
Long recount could leave Maine’s 2nd District seat vacant when Congress begins new term
A spokesman for Jared Golden says delaying his swearing-in to the U.S. House would only hurt the people who elected him.
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Video: Recount in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District election is underway
After losing by more than 3,500 votes in the nation’s first ranked-choice election, U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin asked for a hand recount
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Dana Milbank: Shaken by midterm losses, GOP resorts to thievery
If Republicans can’t win elections normally, there’s always voter suppression and power grabbing.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine attorney general election should be more open
Requiring on-the-record voting by legislators would shed light on what is an obscure process.
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With 2nd District recount set to start, judge says he’ll rule soon on ranked-choice challenge
Lance Walker, who heard opposing arguments Wednesday by the state and the Poliquin campaign, must decide whether Maine’s voter-approved election system is constitutional.
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Maine begins 2nd Congressional District recount Thursday morning
The lengthy, town-by-town recount of nearly 300,000 ballots cast in Maine 2nd Congressional District race will begin Thursday morning, according to the Secretary of State’s office. Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin requested the recount after a tabulation of the ballots using Maine’s ranked-choice voting system showed him trailing Democrat Jared Golden by 3,509 votes. Poliquin […]
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Ballot recount in 2nd Congressional District race starts Thursday
The process, involving the hand-counting of nearly 300,000 votes and several tabulation rounds under ranked-choice voting, could take four weeks, not counting the holidays.
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Poliquin’s election challenge faces long odds
Wednesday’s hearing is the start of a push to make Maine the national, legal test case for ranked-choice voting in any federal election.