This version of ranked-choice voting satisfies all the constitutional questions that have been raised.
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Our View: Maine lawmakers add confusion to very simple question
If they would listen to the voters, state officials would stop trying to kill ranked-choice voting.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
A final resolution on ranked-choice voting: Fix it, don’t patch it
Now is the time to face up to the majority voting issue problem in the Maine Constitution and resolve it.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Ranked-choice best choice for primaries
A bill before the Legislature would let voters focus on one question next spring: Who would be the best governor of Maine?
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Hannah Pingree: Ranked-choice voting gives voters more voice
Repealing ranked-choice voting would bind us to an election system that remains deeply flawed.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Maine lawmakers divided over ranked-choice voting
The Senate votes to repeal the voting method approved in a statewide referendum, but the House opts to leave parts of the law intact for primary voting and congressional elections.
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Maine Senate sets aside legislation to repeal ranked-choice voting law
It then approves and sends to the House a bill to amend the Maine Constitution to fix flaws in the law identified by the state’s highest court.
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Our View: Ranked-choice voters should not be forgotten
The electoral system that Mainers supported last fall is unconstitutional – so let’s change the state Constitution.
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Maine lawmakers hear passionate debate on ranked-choice voting
Two bills, including one to repeal the voter-approved law, go before a legislative committee.
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Supporters of ranked-choice voting call on legislators to adopt parts of law
Their rally comes a day before the Legislature holds hearings on two ranked-choice bills prompted by a Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruling that the system violates the state constitution.