On May 14, the Maine Senate passed LD 816, the National Popular Vote Plan bill. It now goes to the State House. The vote was 19-16. All Democrats except two voted for the bill. All Republicans voted against it. Thanks to Alex Hammer for this news.
On May 14, the Maine Senate passed LD 816, the National Popular Vote Plan bill. It now goes to the State House. The vote was 19-16. All Democrats except two voted for the bill. All Republicans voted against it. Thanks to Alex Hammer for this news.
ME – had the 2 EC USA REP gerrymander districts in 2016.
Trump got 269 [28 States] + 1 [ME CD2] to get the magic 270 of 538 EC votes = Prez 2017-2021.
Clinton got 2 + 1 ME CD 1 = 3
Thus the Donkey NPV machination.
Minn. House just approved their NPV bill as well.
Not sure whether or how many donkeys graze on the grasses of the Minnesota plains.
IMO, ranked choice voting for President would be better for Maine. Why discard their swing state status? It’s not rational.
WZ — since when are monarchs/oligarchs rational —
in 6,000 plus years of minority rule machinations ???
They can still have ranked choice for every other offices. The presidential election is the only office that is nationwidde and should be based on national vote, not state. All other elections should be decided within states and ranked choice is good.
What State elects ONLY ONE statewide officer ???
USA should at least also elect USA Att Gen and Sec State and SCOTUS nationwide.
Uniform definition of elector in ALL of the USA — Citizen – 18 plus yrs old.
NO mental/criminal machinations.
Many *criminals* are due to rigged/FALSE evidence by corrupt/incompetent cops, prosecutors, lab techs, witnesses, etc.
@DR,
The only popularly-elected statewide officer in Maine is the Governor.
Thanks for asking.
STV can be used to elect an executive body. Just rank candidate-officer pairs.
JR — good reason to abolish Maine – have it merge with NH, VT, MA, CT and RI.
PR and AppV
History note –
ME created in 1820-1821 from north part of Mass to end Missouri admission/slavery crisis
— ie MO one more slave State – ME one more free State.
CRISIS Band-aids 1820-1861 — akin to crisis rot 1993-2019 ongoing.
Union 20th Maine Rgt (and about 4 other Rgts) at Little Round Top south end of Union Army line – Gettysburg July 2, 1863 >> Union Victory >> Confeds Doom >> 13-14-15 Amdts
@ Ed Ng:
I think ranked choice voting for President is a far better solution than the NPV Compact. Even with NPV, there is still the possibility of electing a minority President.
And you don’t even have to have an interstate compact. Any state can adopt it an any time.
It is, in fact, the best way to resolve the Presidential election in swing states where the so-called spoiled vote has the most serious impact.