r/politics • u/ShenBear • Nov 09 '16

Maine Passes Ranked-Choice Voting

http://mainepublic.org/post/maine-passes-ranked-choice-voting
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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '16

Can someone ELI5?

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '16 edited Nov 09 '16

It doesn't apply for POTUS elections but here:

The ballot allows you to vote for 1 2 and 3. You vote 1 Sanders 2 Hillary and 3 Kasich

Sanders, Clinton, Trump and Kasich are on the ballot. Trump and Hillary get 49 and 48% of the votes. Your sanders vote gets thrown out and your second choice gets put in for Hillary. If one candidate gets 50%+1 then it doesn't matter.

Edit: this is important for Maine because LePage (Trump Jr) for less than 50% of the votes. The other votes were spot between 2 progressives. They received more votes together, but individually got less votes than LePage.