Maine Governor Janet Mills must decide whether to let ranked choice voting apply to the presidential primary and the presidential general election by midnight, Friday night, September 6. The bill is LD 1083. If the bill becomes law, Maine will be the first state in history to use ranked choice voting for a presidential election in November.
Mills is a Democrat, and generally Maine Democratic politicians support ranked choice voting. But she may be bothered by the complicated interplay of ranked choice voting in the Democratic presidential primary, and the fact that Democratic rules already provide proportional delegates to candidates who receive at least 15% of the popular vote.
http://ballot-access.org/2019/05/19/two-utah-cities-will-use-ranked-choice-voting-in-municipal-elections-this-year/
RCV FATAL DEFECTS — ESP FOR SINGLE OFFICES
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NOOOO PRIMARIES, CAUCUSES AND CONVENTIONS.
PR AND APPV – PENDING CONDORCET
I’m not understanding why this is a problem. It seems that simply transferring the votes of Presidential candidates who get less than 15%, and accepting the proportion that results for delegate selection, is the solution.
@WZ,
Has the Maine Democratic Party proposed that procedure, has the DNC approved that procedure, does the Maine SOS have authority to employ that procedure even though it is different from that in statute, and has the governor received assurances of all of this?
IF the national Donkeys wanted RCV in Prez primaries, THEN the national Donkey rules would say so.
ARMIES OF DONKEY HACK LAWYERS WORKING ON NATIONAL DONKEY RULES SINCE 1968 — THE INTERNAL DONKEY WAR IN CHICAGO – WAR/RIOT BURG ON TV >>> NIXON IN 1969-1974.
ANY ABSOLUTE BLOOD OATH TIME DEADLINE FOR DONKEY RIG-THE-RESULTS MACHINATIONS ???