On November 13, Republican Congressman Bruce Poliquin and some voters in his district filed a federal lawsuit to enjoin the use of ranked choice voting in last week’s election. Baber v Dunlap, 1:18cv-465. The case is assigned to Judge Lance E. Walker, a Trump appointee. Here is the 25-page complaint.
The first choice vote count shows that Poliquin has 2,000 more votes than his Democratic opponent, Jared Golden. However, 8% of the voters used their first choice votes to support one of the two independent candidates in the race. When the ranked choice process counts the next round, virtually everyone expects Golden will win. Golden has already asked to intervene in the case. Thanks to Political Wire for this news.
One more ANTI-Democracy gerrymander HACK at work
— infected with plurality/minority rule disease
— like all/most gerrymander monarch HACKS in the USA Congress, ALL State legislatures and many local regimes – esp larger counties and cities.
Maine is one of the very few somewhat 2 party regimes — about 5 of 50 States now.
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PR and AppV — pending Condorcet (STV/RCV/IRV done correctly)
— regardless of ALL monarchs/oligarchs and their robot moron/stooge supporters.
The idea that the Constitution somehow mandates plurality-wins is a junk legal argument that flies in the face of both the text and longstanding practice in states that hold runoffs.
That’s… kinda what RCV does, Bruce. It’s not my favorite way to vote, but it’s better than nothing. Probably.
Maine should go back to the use of trials to determine a majority winner.
That guy is (“sorry” to said) pathetic snowflake that can’t even wait for second round results no or less to refused a likely lose and some voters will going to hate him of redoing their district election again if Judge will favor his pathetic lawsuit.
POV and LOL Pending ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and HACK and STUFF, Too!
Did CL have a well fed repeat-back parrot in a pre-skoool civics class ???
me 618 primary
https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/results/results18.html#june18
Note- wasted votes
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NO primaries needed.
Condorcet = RCV done correctly.
Bimomial voting system: vote for a pair of candidates. The pair that gets a majority of the vote wins. The candidate with the most votes of the winning voting pair gets elected. France has a system like this for its local elections.
France — National Assembly = one more fatal gerrymander legislative body
— shows in now 5th Republic regime since 1789
— ie destruction of earlier regimes — with their fatal defects.