Here is the Maine sample ballot for the June 12, 2018 primary for Governor. That particular ballot is the Democratic ballot.
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Maine Secretary of State Posts Sample Ballots for June 2018 Primary, Showing How Ranked-Choice Ballot Looks — 10 Comments
The ballot is well-designed and nobody should claim it was confusing! It is about time that RCV tried state-wide. Let’s just hope it is “tried” 3 or 4 election cycles in sequence to give it a good workout and fair chance to show how it works.
Why advertise the candidate names on the ballot while offering up to eight choices to rank? Why not simply eight write-in spaces for an all write-in ballot? Is that how the Federal Write-in Absentee ballot will accommodate rank choice?
How is the number of candidates determined for ranked choice voting? It is by the usual ballot access censorship provisions of fees and petitions isn’t it?
Condorcet math — Number Voting done correctly (with AppV tiebreaker).
The United Coalition’s first campaign was a team of four in 1992 for Santa Cruz City Council election where an the online presence was launched and maintained and now in 2018 the California team consists of more than 100 candidates for elective office.
In 1994 Ralph Nader [Independent] agreed to remain on the United Coalition’s paper ballot, one of 125 names for US President (POTUS), before he was a candidate for POTUS with California Green Party.
In 1997 Google derived their name from the United Coalition’s conversation in Usenet but they don’t want you to know, so they bought Dejanews, named it Google Groups, and then they deleted the evidence in Google Groups.
In 2012, despite the vicious treatment by pluralists, the censorship from the national Libertarian Party’s (LP) web site, the United Coalition won the only LP State primary which fell before the LP national convention with 52.7%.
But the LP bosses made sure their delegates never knew about the victory and the winners were denied equal treatment and equal time.
Political party bosses do not support unity and collaboration, they oppose pure proportional representation (PPR), and they will do anything to wreck havoc on anyone with a new idea for smoother teamwork.
The party bosses oppose intra-party collaboration.
The United Coalition has been using pure proportional representation for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works fine for intra-party collaboration.
You have a flawed understanding of design. The butterfly ballot in Florida was deliberately designed for elderly voters who are often farsighted and have difficulty reading. Since such persons often had normal vision when younger, they may be more vain about using glasses. Someone who has worn glasses since they were twelve will not be upset about using bifocals.
The butterfly ballot allowed use of a larger font, since the ballots had to include the name of two candidates, and spread out over two pages made all candidates easily visible. If you had that explained to you, you might have praised the effort to enable the visually-impaired elderly to participate in democracy. If you looked at ballots every day as part of your work, you would have understood. If you only voted every four years, and the last time you voted was on an iron behemoth in New York, and this was your first time with punch card ballots, would have understood?
Imagine that you work for a political consulting firm hired by Lobster PAC which wants you to promote the following ranking: Mills, Sweet, Dion, Cote, Dion, Russell, Eves. Describe your print and media advertising.
@DFR, It is illegal in Maine to rank more than one write-in candidate. The law only requires six rankings.
What will the ballot for unenrolled voters look like?
Unfortunately for Maine, the state appears to be adopting ranked choice voting in single-winner districts and that will create a one party system where 2nd, 3rd and smaller civic groups will be shut out.
The misdirection of efforts by opponents of Top Two, the lack of equal treatment and equal time for proponents of pure proportional representation (PPR) has allowed the implementation of a one party system in SF, Oakland, Maine and other regions.
The United Coalition is promoting a unifying voting system that brings a unity phenomena that’s sweeping the globe. But the distractions caused by control freaks, single-winner power grabbers and egotists has prohibited the advance of fair elections and faulty ground work in locations like Santa Clara California where one programmer brings predictable security, transparency, ownership and faulty design cemented into the conversation.
PPR brings mathematical unity but the mathematics should be done correctly or the unity phenomena is altered and bad math makes it tough to attract the correct psychology for constructive progress.
Unfortunately I still believe this is an unconstitutional issue. I think we will find this out. I think that we need to get our elected officials on board, THAT IF SOMETHING IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL that it should never be placed on the ballot in the first place. I believe in the will of the people, and if we want to screw up our state, then the people have spoken. We as Maine residents were influenced by OUT OF STATE MONEY (just follow the pathway and it always leads to the truth) This was put into place to make sure that a NON POLITICIAN would never make it into office. This change cost us $80,000. (this could have been used for bigger and better things). If the court rules that this is UNCONSTITUTIONAL, we need to sue the people that decided this was a change Maine needed. They should be responsible for the money being refunded back to the Maine people. It is time MAINE people stop believing the ads on FACEBOOK and really researching what you are voting for! I will vote like I have always voted 1 MAN 1 VOTE!
The ballot is well-designed and nobody should claim it was confusing! It is about time that RCV tried state-wide. Let’s just hope it is “tried” 3 or 4 election cycles in sequence to give it a good workout and fair chance to show how it works.
Why advertise the candidate names on the ballot while offering up to eight choices to rank? Why not simply eight write-in spaces for an all write-in ballot? Is that how the Federal Write-in Absentee ballot will accommodate rank choice?
How is the number of candidates determined for ranked choice voting? It is by the usual ballot access censorship provisions of fees and petitions isn’t it?
Condorcet math — Number Voting done correctly (with AppV tiebreaker).
The United Coalition’s first campaign was a team of four in 1992 for Santa Cruz City Council election where an the online presence was launched and maintained and now in 2018 the California team consists of more than 100 candidates for elective office.
In 1994 Ralph Nader [Independent] agreed to remain on the United Coalition’s paper ballot, one of 125 names for US President (POTUS), before he was a candidate for POTUS with California Green Party.
In 1997 Google derived their name from the United Coalition’s conversation in Usenet but they don’t want you to know, so they bought Dejanews, named it Google Groups, and then they deleted the evidence in Google Groups.
http://usparliament.org/how-google-got-its-name.php
In 2012, despite the vicious treatment by pluralists, the censorship from the national Libertarian Party’s (LP) web site, the United Coalition won the only LP State primary which fell before the LP national convention with 52.7%.
But the LP bosses made sure their delegates never knew about the victory and the winners were denied equal treatment and equal time.
Political party bosses do not support unity and collaboration, they oppose pure proportional representation (PPR), and they will do anything to wreck havoc on anyone with a new idea for smoother teamwork.
The party bosses oppose intra-party collaboration.
The United Coalition has been using pure proportional representation for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works fine for intra-party collaboration.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
Probably every other horiz and vert line should be a tiny bit wider/darker – to reduce errors — ie groups of 4 ovals.
Any standard complaints about rotating names ??? –
or perhaps 1/2 ballots A-Z and other 1/2 Z-A — with RCV code changes.
@Gene, but look at this ballot where there are two races:
http://maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/pdf/DEMRCV2Contests20180420.pdf
You have a flawed understanding of design. The butterfly ballot in Florida was deliberately designed for elderly voters who are often farsighted and have difficulty reading. Since such persons often had normal vision when younger, they may be more vain about using glasses. Someone who has worn glasses since they were twelve will not be upset about using bifocals.
The butterfly ballot allowed use of a larger font, since the ballots had to include the name of two candidates, and spread out over two pages made all candidates easily visible. If you had that explained to you, you might have praised the effort to enable the visually-impaired elderly to participate in democracy. If you looked at ballots every day as part of your work, you would have understood. If you only voted every four years, and the last time you voted was on an iron behemoth in New York, and this was your first time with punch card ballots, would have understood?
Imagine that you work for a political consulting firm hired by Lobster PAC which wants you to promote the following ranking: Mills, Sweet, Dion, Cote, Dion, Russell, Eves. Describe your print and media advertising.
@DFR, It is illegal in Maine to rank more than one write-in candidate. The law only requires six rankings.
What will the ballot for unenrolled voters look like?
Unfortunately for Maine, the state appears to be adopting ranked choice voting in single-winner districts and that will create a one party system where 2nd, 3rd and smaller civic groups will be shut out.
The misdirection of efforts by opponents of Top Two, the lack of equal treatment and equal time for proponents of pure proportional representation (PPR) has allowed the implementation of a one party system in SF, Oakland, Maine and other regions.
The United Coalition is promoting a unifying voting system that brings a unity phenomena that’s sweeping the globe. But the distractions caused by control freaks, single-winner power grabbers and egotists has prohibited the advance of fair elections and faulty ground work in locations like Santa Clara California where one programmer brings predictable security, transparency, ownership and faulty design cemented into the conversation.
PPR brings mathematical unity but the mathematics should be done correctly or the unity phenomena is altered and bad math makes it tough to attract the correct psychology for constructive progress.
Unfortunately I still believe this is an unconstitutional issue. I think we will find this out. I think that we need to get our elected officials on board, THAT IF SOMETHING IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL that it should never be placed on the ballot in the first place. I believe in the will of the people, and if we want to screw up our state, then the people have spoken. We as Maine residents were influenced by OUT OF STATE MONEY (just follow the pathway and it always leads to the truth) This was put into place to make sure that a NON POLITICIAN would never make it into office. This change cost us $80,000. (this could have been used for bigger and better things). If the court rules that this is UNCONSTITUTIONAL, we need to sue the people that decided this was a change Maine needed. They should be responsible for the money being refunded back to the Maine people. It is time MAINE people stop believing the ads on FACEBOOK and really researching what you are voting for! I will vote like I have always voted 1 MAN 1 VOTE!