[EL] Verdicts are in from Maine on the constitutionality & normalcy of ranked choice voting

[Rob Richie]

The Maine US Senate and US House elections with ranked choice voting
election were impressive this year -- turnout was up, blank ballots
(undervotes were down) and voter error minuscule (less than 0.2%).

The fact that it changed one outcome helped trigger a request for a recount
however but it was  dropped  midway through as the tally was showing few
changes - just like in recounts in single choice elections. Now a federal
legal challenge that tried a full range of arguments has ended in the wake
of a robust opinion from Judge Lance Walker and a terse rejection of an
emergency appeal from the 1st circuit.. Here's a link to the story, with a
short excerpt from it.

- Rob Richie


https://bangordailynews.com/2018/12/24/politics/poliquin-announces-that-he-is-giving-up-legal-challenge-to-ranked-choice-voting/

By Michael Shepherd <https://bangordailynews.com/author/mshepherd/>, BDN
Staff • December 24, 2018 3:32 pm
AUGUSTA, Maine — Outgoing U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin of Maine’s 2nd District
announced on Monday that he will end his federal challenge
<https://bangordailynews.com/2018/12/19/politics/read-poliquins-latest-legal-salvo-and-goldens-response/>
 to the state’s ranked-choice voting system, which delivered Rep.-elect
Jared Golden’s historic 2018 victory
<https://bangordailynews.com/2018/11/15/politics/golden-defeats-poliquin-in-contested-2nd-district-ranked-choice-count/>
 over the two-term incumbent.....Nothing improved for Poliquin’s case. In
December, Walker issued a more comprehensive
<https://bangordailynews.com/2018/12/13/politics/judge-rejects-poliquins-challenge-to-ranked-choice-voting/>
ruling
against the Republican’s challenge to the method. The outgoing congressman
then appealed to a higher court to stop Golden from being sworn in to
succeed him, but the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that challenge
last week
<https://bangordailynews.com/2018/12/21/politics/1st-circuit-ends-poliquins-efforts-to-keep-house-seat/>
.



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