On Friday, October 2, Maine Republican opponents of ranked choice voting asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop use of ranked choice voting for president. Here is the brief. Jones v Dunlap, 20A57. The merits of the case do not concern ranked choice voting, but the constitutionality of the Maine law that kept the referendum petition off the ballot. That law requires referendum petitioners to be registered voters.
That is a very clear brief.
What about voters that already voted but who would have voted differently without RCV? If RCV isn’t used, it seems like it would cause their vote not to count. How much influence does that consideration have on the overall request — a little or a lot?
INTERNAL STATE politics = registered voters.
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reform – one voter pet forms — NOOO circulators.
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How many SCOTUS cases filed — 10 yet ??? more ???
Where is BARRETT ???
Sen elephants too EVIL STUPID to confirm her N-O-W — this second ???
The law is very clear, whether Jim is being straightforward or snarky about the brief.
One voter petition forms does not mean no circulators. Florida has one voter petition forms and they still make circulators sign them.
I hope that the Republicans prevail on this point for the sake of future petitions, but they will not get relief in time for this election. I doubt the Supreme Court will take it on, particularly with a vacant seat. There is no good reason not to hold this referendum till the next election when voters will be informed by experience using the RCV process.
It would be a delicious irony if, Biden carries Maine 2, on the first round by a plurality, but loses to Trump after transfers.
I can guarantee that the biggest party in each voting district in Maine using RCV as single-winner election district will win 100% of all elections using this method with no exceptions as long as this is in effect.
Are you concerned about one-party and two-party voting systems?
The United Coalition USA has been bringing the correct math for the pure proportional representation (PPR) and don’t settle for less.
United Coalition USA
http://www.pprelectoralcollege.com
The petition was filed on June 15. After the SOS threw out some of the signatures on the grounds that two circulators were not registered in their town of residence, the petitioners file suit in state court and prevailed on the grounds that Maine’s registration requirement was contrary to the 1st Amendment and SCOTUS precedent, the SOS appealed to the Maine Supreme Court which reversed. Had this been an ordinary non-election law, the SOS would not have so closely scrutinized the petition. The SOS has a conflict of interest.
@SG,
“Maine’s Secretary of State denied applicants their fundamental First Amendment right to engage in the State’s citizen petition process by applying an unconstitutional petition circulator voter registration requirement to invalidate a petition Applicants validly signed.”
That is quite clear.
Let’s stipulate that the signatures were voluntarily given by the voters who were registered. What purpose does the Maine statute serve?
I wonder if they can find some people who signed the petition who will say “I assumed the circulators were locally registered voters, I wouldn’t have signed it if I had known they weren’t”. After all, that is/was the law and could have had some bearing on voters decision to sign or not
https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/results/index.html
— links to RCV math
— will be delayed a bit in Nov 2020.
DO NOT hope for ANY problems in ME CD 2 for Prez/VP
= TOTAL gerrymander WAR in 2021-2022 with junk 2020 Census stats.
REFORM —
NOOO circulators.
One voter forms for nom and issue pets —
via internet, newspapers, mags, junk snail mail, etc.
Mail them in via postal snail, etc.
@ BL:
I have never considered whether a petitioner was local or not, or whether a petitioner was paid or not, or even whether any petitioner was paid by time or signature, whenever I have signed a petition. I think it sad that there are small minded people who are distracted by such trivial considerations. What matters to me is what is the issue, or who is the candidate.