On September 8, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court determined that the decision of a state trial court that had approved the Republican-backed referendum petition concerning ranked-choice voting for president is automatically stayed. Therefore Maine will use ranked choice voting for president this November, according to the Secretary of State. See this link. Thanks to Walter Ziobro for this news.
Here is the decision of the Maine Supreme Court. Thanks to Thomas Jones for that link. UPDATE: see this article, which explains in greater detail.
New item being talked about on today’s weekly Los Angeles County Mini-state Zoom Show;
Republican and Black Panther Party members agree; Repeal the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.
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Vote Totals
http://www.allpartysystem.com/e-aps-6-totals.php
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The Bangor Daily News story indicates that the court has said that RCV ballots should be printed but that they have not ruled on if they will be utilized as such.
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/09/08/politics/maine-can-print-ranked-choice-presidential-ballots-but-no-guarantee-method-will-be-used/
Unfortunately well-intentioned do-gooders are implementing the one-party voting system like FairVote brought to SF, Oakland and more, where only the one biggest wins guaranteed year after year.
Only limited voting like in Cambridge Massachusetts is the only known correct example of pure proportional representation (PPR) and tbe new PPR Electoral College 2020.
If you thought the two-party system was trash, wait til you experience FairVote’s one-party system. Those who get that are doomed from ever attaining representation even with equal time and equal treatment in debates.
United Coalition USA
http://www.pprelectoralcollege.com
Cambridge mass PR system is about 85-90 pct *representative* — 42-45 pct minority rule
— compared to about 60 percent standard gerrymander systems — 30 percent minority rule.
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PR and AppV — pending Condorcet
TOTSOP
Thanks, Chris. I re-wrote the post.
This will be the first time Instant Runoff Voting will be used for President. It will be interesting to see how it goes.
How will minor party/independent candidates votes be reported?
http://ballot-access.org/2019/05/19/two-utah-cities-will-use-ranked-choice-voting-in-municipal-elections-this-year/
RCV ROT
Andy –
SEE 2018 ME SOS election results.
Now somewhat standard spreadsheet reporting of results.
Transfer lowest loser votes to remaining candidates.
Repeat until 50 pct + winner.
Lol at “Black Panther” Ogle casually calling for the reinstitution of slavery.