On June 4, the Maine legislature passed LD 1626. It sets up a presidential primary in 2020, in March. It does not include ranked choice voting, nor does it alter the law that doesn’t let independents vote in Maine primaries unless they join a party on or before primary day. Thanks to Josh Putnam for this news.
Doesn’t the referendum approving ranked choice voting apply? This would seem to be the ideal location to try this out in a Presidential primary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting_in_the_United_States
IRV magically re-named RCV — by the usual suspect math morons.
http://ballot-access.org/2019/05/19/two-utah-cities-will-use-ranked-choice-voting-in-municipal-elections-this-year/
DR – RCV/IRV FATAL defects
there was another Maine bill for a presidential primary that included ranked choice voting, and that bill didn’t pass. Laws on primaries don’t necessarily apply to presidential primaries. For example, Arizona’s Constitution says independents can vote in primaries, and yet they can’t in the Arizona presidential primary even though there is no exception for presidential primaries in the Az. constitution.
It comes with a very tight petitioning schedule–2000-3000 party registered signatures from November 1 through December 21 of the year prior to the election.