On July 15, the Maine Secretary of State said the Republican referendum petition to stop ranked-choice voting for president failed to obtain enough signatures. See this story. The Secretary of State says the petition needed another 1,600 valid signatures.
Assuming the Secretary of State’s decision is not successfully challenged, this means Maine will use ranked-choice voting for president in November 2020. This will be the first time in U.S. history that any state has used ranked-choice voting in a presidential general election. If the petition had received enough valid signatures, then the voters would have voted again on whether to use ranked-choice voting (for president) in November 2020, but in the meantime it could not be used.
RCV disease — just like top 2 primary disease —
both BAAAAADE math due to math MORON *reformers*.
PR and AppV — pending Condorcet [with AppV tiebreaker] [RCV done right].
This will definitely be interesting. It is a first, though I’m wondering which count would be used for the NPVIC (probably the first one).