The bill received initial approval in the Legislature but was shelved during the final hours of the 2019 session.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Mainers have no obligation to sign people’s veto petitions
No one should support a position with which they disagree just to send the question to the voters.
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Our View: Maine presidential primary should use ranked-choice voting
The most confusing aspect of the system is the on-again-off-again way that it’s used in some races but not others.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Group pushing ranked-choice voting challenges city’s rejection of petition
Its petition effort to expand the voting system to citywide races fell short, but Fair Elections Portland is challenging signatures that were disqualified.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Portland activists to submit signatures for 2 ballot questions on local election reform
One initiative would create a municipally funded clean elections program and the other would extend ranked-choice voting to council and school board races.
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics
Opponents of a dozen new laws aim to erase them with ‘people’s veto’ campaigns
With a short time to collect 63,067 signatures, special interest groups and individuals file more than a dozen requests to challenge newly signed laws.
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics, Uncategorized
Presidential primaries, automatic voter registration among election-law changes
But lawmakers defeated several attempts to change the citizen initiative process and the ranked-choice voting that was used statewide in Maine for the first time last year.
Posted inBusiness, Elections, Local & State, News, Politics
Presidential primary bill passes but bonds falter as legislative session ends
Weary lawmakers, who worked until roughly 6:30 a.m. Thursday before adjourning the 2019 legislative session, may be called back to complete unfinished work.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: A constitutional pathway is available to ranked-choice voting in state elections
If there were only a first and a second choice, votes could be added directly to a candidate’s total and tabulated in a single count.
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Maine holds hearings on expanding ranked-choice voting to governor’s race
Maine used the ranked-choice voting system for the first time in November federal races.