Ranked Choice Voting Appears to Have Greatly Increased the Howie Hawkins Vote in Maine

Last month, Maine used ranked choice voting for president, the first state ever to do that.  Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee, polled slightly over 1.00% in Maine last month.  That made Maine his best state, by far.  His second highest percentage was Hawaii, with .67%, and no other state was higher than .52%.

One might say that Maine is always supportive of Green Party presidential nominees, and that is true, but not to that extent.  In 2016 Maine was Jill Stein’s sixth highest state.

Maine’s ranked choice voting for president doesn’t seem to have helped the Libertarian Party’s nominee Jo Jorgensen as much.  Maine was her 13th best state.  In 2016, Maine had been Gary Johnson’s 9th best state.  It may be that voter fear of “spoiling” is a greater problem for Green-leaning voters than for Libertarian-leaning voters.

The only other minor party candidate on the Maine ballot in 2020 was Rocky De La Fuente of the Alliance Party, who got .14% in Maine, his fifth best state.  He was on in 15 states in 2020.  It is tough to know if ranked choice voting helped him, because he wasn’t on the ballot in Maine in 2016.


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Ranked Choice Voting Appears to Have Greatly Increased the Howie Hawkins Vote in Maine — 22 Comments

  1. The relative underperformance of Maine for Jorgensen vs Johnson might be better explained by the fact that Jorgensen had 12 states where she was the only alternative on the ballot vs 4 for Johnson. That, along with the addition of De La Fuente on the ballot in 2020 to draw away more of the random protest votes, served to move other states up and Maine down in Jorgensen’s rankings.

    If Libertarian voters weren’t worried about spoiling the election, then Jorgensen’s nationwide average would have been roughly at the same level as the average of Libertarian candidates for US House, after removing the elections where the Libertarian US House candidate only had one opponent. She was less than half of that. You could probably count on one hand the number of US House candidates she beat. Most of them were in NY or NJ.

  2. I got NONE. No votes for Bob.
    But that is ok.
    I do not want any if it would take away from fellow Green Howlin Howie,
    in his close race to win.
    Oops. Nevermind.

  3. Hey, did anybody hear about the rv that blew up in Nashville?
    Hey, I have an rv. Gee I wonder if it will blow up?
    Hey, I have 2 rvs. Just like that guy.
    Suddenly an rv went from a fun family vehicle to drive around on vacation
    or alternative housing like for emergencies or additional housing for doctors and nurses
    fighting Covid to save a trip home from the hospital,
    to a tool for terrorists.

  4. With Demo Rep and Milnes here, all we need is Ogle and Robert Stock so the looney convention can officially open.

  5. Any cops want to search my rvs, go ahead.
    I waive my right to a search warrant.
    You will not find anything.
    Just don’t plant anything, ok?
    And don’t get bent out of shape if I say,
    “I told you so.”

  6. Richard,
    “…rcv may have greatly increased the Howie Hawkins vote…”
    Come on. Do the math.
    Near zero + near zero is near zero.
    near zero x times near zero is still near zero.
    Near zero cubed is still near zero.
    This is Duverger’s Law.

  7. Milnes, do you also post here as “Egyptian God”? Do you refer to Paul as the “cyberpig” and Xaulie Banalie?

    If it is not you, is it somebody who lives in New Jersey? Perhaps somebody who used to be the State Chairman of Libertarian Party affiliate which does not border New Jersey, but is not really far away from New Jersey?

  8. Andy,
    I only post as me.
    I have referred to paulie as cyberpig and I invented Xaulie Banalie.
    Maybe you are thinking Nathan Norman of IPR-X, Better than IPR.
    I think New Federalist is from nearby also, PA maybe.

  9. The military is already in charge of Operation Warp Speed.
    It is clear top administration officials as well as military, state and intelligence have been dancing with Mr Trump to keep him from collossal blunders in policy, military decisions. Literally fumbling around with the nuclear football.
    Presently Mr Trump has devolved to corrupt, incompetent, ignorant, irresponsible, malfeasant, uncaring, infantile-juvenile at best, lazy etc.
    Mr Biden is almost as bad.
    The solution is for the military and police to takeover, flatten the curve, conduct fair and representative debates and elections-Top Six.
    We can go from there.

  10. Hasn’t “Egyptian God” also used “Cyberpig” and “Xaulie Banalie” beforw?

    Also, I recall a few years ago one of these trolls said they were going to call me, and then I got some strange phone calls from a New Jersey area code (856 I think), and it turned out to be Robert Milnes leaving some strange messages. I don’t know how he got my number or why he called. I never returned the calls.

  11. Andy,
    Yes, Egyptian God has used Cyberpig. A lot more than me actually. He uses Xaulie Banali also.
    Yes NJ area code is 856. My area code is 856.
    I remember that flurry of phone calls a few years ago.
    I tried to call paulie once or twice.
    Not much came of it so I gave up.
    Are you saying you are paulie?

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