The looming presidential primary will add new layers of intrigue – and maybe a lawsuit or two – to the state’s first-of-its-kind election process.
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Conservative group pushing Mills to veto bill for ranked-choice primary
The Maine Heritage Policy Center sends the governor a letter making its case against legislation to extend the state’s ranked-choice voting system to the presidential primary in March.
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Uncertainty lingers over ranked-choice presidential primary, despite Senate passage
Gov. Janet Mills hasn’t committed to signing the bill, it’s unclear how the $100,000 cost would be funded, and party officials have discretion to interpret voting results when delegates are assigned to national conventions.
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Maine Senate passes ranked-choice voting for March presidential primaries
The bill is now in the hands of Gov. Janet Mills, who won her Democratic gubernatorial primary last year in the nation’s first ranked-choice runoff for a statewide office.
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Ranked-choice voting supporters regroup, believe presidential primary still in reach
The bill received initial approval in the Legislature but was shelved during the final hours of the 2019 session.
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 inMaine, 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.
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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.
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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.