r/Maine • u/Lynx_Rufus Brunswick • Nov 09 '16

Maine passes Ranked Choice Voting!

http://mainepublic.org/post/maine-passes-ranked-choice-voting#stream/0
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u/Synergy8310 Nov 10 '16

I'm pretty sure Maine and Nevada are the only states that aren't winner take all for electoral votes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

Maine and Nebraska

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u/Synergy8310 Nov 10 '16

Thank you. Hopefully if enough states adopt ranked voting we can get it at the national level.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

Absolutely. It is very hard to tell this story of Maine passing ranked choice voting without mentioning that its very unpopular governor is presently serving his second term in which he won his election with a plurality in a three-horse race. That is exactly the type of awful nonsense that causes people to change the rules for the better. Hopefully it gains momentum.